Best Lgbtq Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“The door of their hearts cracked wide open, wide enough for the river to flow in and climb to the crown of their heads.”

“When I got my first Broadway gig, I called home to tell my mama the news. She said sh always knew I'd be a big star and hung up the phone. She didn't even give me the chance to tell her how much that meant to me. Years later, my sister Robin told me that, after the call, Mama told them I'd be home before I could blink twice.”

“It was time to step out of my comfort zone. I was going to meet people face-to-face. The book had received rave reviews from everybody, everywhere. Oops, I did read that four people didn't like it. I'd like to respond to those comments right now. Fuck all four of y'all.”

“You remember a family, a life before all this. If I knew how to love, I'd tell you I love you. But I don't reckon I know how, Henri. I'm not even sure we're supposed to love.”

“The stories of others who fought back never stopped circling their plans. Retribution was inevitable. Justice was fated. Capitultion was unthinkable.”

“The stories of others who fought back never stopped circling their plans. Retribution was inevitable. Justice was fated. Capitulation was unthinkable.”

“Having money to me was like having a full tank of gas -- it didn't mean much if you didn't know where you were going or didn't have the curiosity to enjoy the ride....I had never felt as impoverished as the rich people I knew who had no imagination, whose capacity for fun was stunted.”

“The men who could pass for straight if they wanted had a form of privilege that people like me, people who could never pass, never would. Later, when my career had blossomed, I would cross paths with masculine white gay men who looked at me with a kind of seething hatred, a self-loathing turned outward, their internalized homophobia like a sneer of contempt.”

“How did you know the ways of woman and man?" I asked.”

“She’s glad it’s Shara. Nobody else would have felt important enough.”

“I have no doubt we shall win, but the road is long, and red with monstrous martyrdoms.”

“We must live in the future we hope to make.”

“But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. I see a creature whose present existence must have come as a surprise even to itself. Imagine having the power to become resilient to all that is hostile to us. Confinement, solitude, our own toxic waste... Imagine the freedom of encountering space for the first time and taking it up... A dumped goldfish has no model for what a different and better life might look like, but it finds it anyway. I want to know what it feels like to be unthinkable too, to invent a future that no one expected of you.”

“Hope is part of the human condition and trans people's hope is our proof that we are fully human. We are not an 'issue' to be debated and derided. We are symbols of hope for many non-trans people, too, who see in out lives the possibility of living more fully and freely. That is why some people hate us: they are frightened by the gleaming opulence of our freedom. Our existences enriches this world.”

“His hand lay across my stomach as he slept soundly. I entwined my fingers with his and breathed through the warmth that seeped through my chest. Such a simple, sweet thing to do, yet holding hands in bed was incredibly intimate.”

“I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.”

“That is — your friend?”

“The sheriff's station was on a town square so picturesque it looked like a studio backlot....I paced around wearing a pair off cutoff denim shorts, a tank top, a tiny jacket, a cowboy hat and cowboy boots...I truly could not have looked any gayer.”

“Regardless of how much he wished to have nothing to do with me....anyone who'd revealed his entire humanity to me...even in my dreams, could not be any different in real life.”

“We're a nation of giant toddlers, dragging our blankets and bottles everwhere we go!”

“Odio las flores, las odio más que a nada y es culpa tuya. Antes, tú olías a ellas, ahora son ellas las que huelen a ti.”

“Gabriel.' I'm so close to him our lips are almost touching, and then I move closer so our lips are touching as I say his name again. It's like a kiss but it's not really a kiss. And it's nice and I want more. I move my lips without saying his name, still barely touching, then closer, caressing his lips with mine. And he kisses me.”

“Is this just a polite way of saying you need time to recover from my flat?”

“For the first time in my life, I said the words, “I need a drink.”

“I don't think happily ever after is something that happens to you, Dev. I think it's something you choose to do for yourself.”

“Love is a wild fire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man.”

“Together, in that room, our childhood notions of love melted away. We discovered love was not a fairytale. Sometimes there were no happy endings, and when there were, you needed to work like hell to keep the happiness alive.”

“Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil apart. Neil finally understood why his mother thought this was so dangerous.”

“Traditions are just peer pressure from dead people.”

“Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men.”

“So, let me get this straight-- You want me to stop being a lesbian and being attracted to women because it is a 'sin'? Last time I checked, when you lie you are sinning. Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men. I could tell you a lie in order to placate you, but isn’t the truth supposed to set me free? I choose truth over lies any day of the week.”

“...honestly I'm having a proper full-on GAY PANIC.”