A Quote by Vivek Shraya

Of course, I can't separate my queerness from my brownness - if anything, my queerness amplifies my brownness, and vice versa - but I spent so much of my early twenties trying to erase my differences, often without awareness of what I was doing.

Vivek Shraya

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Vivek Shraya
Canadian - Singer
Born: 1981

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

Natalie Clifford Barney

I love my brownness.

India Arie

albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.

Jan Chipchase

India has a natural brownness to it, a natural yellowness, a sepia tone to it, with the dust in the air.

Greig Fraser

Queerness is the lens that I live my life through.

King Princess

We have to look at queerness as a means towards challenging normativity.

Patrisse Cullors

There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves. These gave out a smell of must and solid brownness which was most secure.

T. H. White

My Blackness, my queerness, my gayness, my inability to shut the hell up - these are all things that have really worked for me.

Bob the Drag Queen

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.

Aldous Huxley

My Jewishness and queerness are very interwoven, and, although they sometimes conflict culturally, intellectually and spiritually they deepen one another for me.

Ezra Furman

The question that comes up a lot is, if you had the chance to erase your memory of something specific, what would you erase? And my answer has always been, I wouldn't erase anything, personally. In some ways, I almost wouldn't want to erase anything from the public consciousness, either, for the same reason.

Elijah Wood

Queerness isn't just Lady Gaga and overpriced drinks and fauxhawks. It's James Baldwin and Bea Arthur and Gertrude Stein and Gore Vidal.

John Cameron Mitchell

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

Richard Dawkins

My brownness is something that I can't hide. There are some straight-acting or straight-passing queer people out there, but I'm not one of them. This is something I would rather not have to hide.