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It inspired a kind of Huck Finn moment when I decided it was better to risk hell than shrivel in the midst of a toxic Southern Baptist morality.

~ Kelly J. Cogswell

Kelly J. Cogswell Huck Finn Inspiration Morality Southern Baptist Toxic

It all suddenly seemed like a hopeless fight, but so what? I told myself. What does it cost you to pretend that the can change (for the better)? That history is an arc and it bends toward justice, even if it is long?

~ Kelly J. Cogswell

Kelly J. Cogswell Activism Inspiration Change Justice

I feel weird spilling it now but have to. Because after a while, it took root, the way shared stories do when you live with them long enough. They affect your DNA like radiation. They give birth to you.

~ Kelly J. Cogswell

Kelly J. Cogswell Roots Shared Stories Stories

There was no single gay point of view. Like skin color or gender or any of those arbitrary, sometimes artificial, difference sexual orientation didn't make us all the same. But it did affect us. It had to.

~ Kelly J. Cogswell

Kelly J. Cogswell Acceptance Differences Diversity Gender Race Sexual Orientation Similarities

We Lesbian Avengers have built this shrine. It stands for our fear. It stands for our grief. It stands for our rage. And it enshrines our intention to live fully and completely as who we are, wherever we are. We take the fire of action into our hearts. And we take it into our bodies. And we stand, here and now, to make it known that we are here, and here we will stay. Our fear does not consume us. Their fire will not consume us. We take that fire, and we make it our own.

~ Kelly J. Cogswell

Kelly J. Cogswell Activism Advocacy Fire Lesbian Shrine

I wanted to drag them all out, flay us all, destroy all the artificial separations of history. You'd merely done what I had, after all--split from two cells into four then eight then sixteen until you've accumulated all your arms and legs and organs and pushed yourself into the world--so fucking what? You honkey, nigger, spic, dyke, cunt. If I cry out, who will hear me?

~ Kelly J. Cogswell

Kelly J. Cogswell Diversity Gender Race

I begged Ana to shut them up, come out as Cuban, play the jail card. But she refused to claim that authority. 'It will mean you, as a Kentucky girl, have nothing valuable to say about Cuba. And Cubans have nothing to say about the rest of the world.

~ Kelly J. Cogswell

Kelly J. Cogswell Cuban Diversity Right To Speak World Politics

It is a big deal to work with people who are different from you. And if you're white or of a higher class,no matter what race you are, you'll probably mess up. Maybe get yelled at. But there are worse things. Like keeping your dignity safe at home, while the world goes to hell.

~ Kelly J. Cogswell

Kelly J. Cogswell Diversity Inspiration Race Relations
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