I just am trans. That's just the way it is. I knew this as a child. But I was told that because I expressed femininity in a boy's body, I needed to be silent about it. To be ashamed. That led to isolation, which then made it easier for me to be prey to a predator in my own home.
My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.
I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with everyone.
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
When the Obama administration passed the net neutrality rules in 2015, even when we were winning, I favored trying to get these rules in a statute, because I feel that the best way to establish predictability for the marketplace is to make sure they're not subject to the whims of a partisan vote at the FCC.
I believe every photographer is influenced by their sexual preference in a greater or lesser way, and it certainly has affected me.
When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.
In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis.
I'm not prejudiced in any way that I can think of. That's just not the guy I am.
I am not prejudiced in any way.
I myself know some people who are gay. We're on friendly terms. I'm not prejudiced in any way.
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
Unlike economics, whose sole preoccupation in our finance-obsessed era is the near-term profit motive, history offers a way to place our tiny lifespans in a narrative that spans dozens of generations - perhaps even reaching into a future where capitalism is no longer our dominant form of economic organization.
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.
I've always been a little 'preppy street.' That's how I would describe it. I'm not all the way into street wear, but I am not all the way into a suit and tie either, so I try to combine that look.
In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.
