"Have u tried *not* being a mutant?" - Mrs. Drake to Bobby "U no, outside the circus, most people were afraid of me. But I didn't hate them. I pitied them. U know y? Bc most people'll never know anything beyond what they see w/ their own 2 eyes." - Nc "I gave up on pity a long time ago." - Storm "Someone so beautiful shouldn't b so angry." "Sometimes anger can help u survive." "So can faith."

Succinctly explains the Conservative viewpoint and why Kansans often sacrifice their economic stability (shoot themselves in the foot every election) for their beliefs.

Best book on Gender, Queerness, Disability, Ableism, Classism, Intellectualism, and other topics...EVER. BEST EVER! To see some of his poetry: http://www.homofactuspress.com/index.php/free_download/

The best of modern morality, delivered by Joss Whedon.

Anti-commercialism and consumerism wake-up call with a nifty soundtrack and cute cast.

"Never let anyone tell you that you can't do something- Not even me. Okay?" - Chris Gardner talking to his son, Christopher (Will Smith and his son in "The Pursuit of Happyness")

"Nothing is ever easy." - Richard (Terry Goodkind's "Stone of Tears") Good (yet difficult) lessons in each of the 3 books. Continual good story past the 3rd book, but the lessons in the first 3 and Faith of the Fallen are the strongest, in my opinion.

Nontraditional gender in traditional Greek family...

Haven't actually been able to purchase this yet, but it looks full of awesomeness.

"Sometimes I come crashing down inside myself without anyone noticing. I'm like an ambulance on two legs, hauling the patient inside me to Last Aid with the wailing cry of a siren, and people think it's ordinary speech." - Yehuda Amichai

Bitter religious diatribe, loved every word of. I was beginning 2 feel a bit like a foreskin myself... A lot like a foreskin. Cut off from my past, uncertain of my future, bloodied, beaten, tossed away. I wondered if there was a place where the foreskins could go, a place where they could live together, peacefully, loved, wanted, a nation of the foreskins, by the foreskins, 4 the foreskins. (153)

"All beginnings are hard." - Chaim Potok's "In The Beginning"

Civil War and time travel.

"In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made alot of people very angry & has widely been regarded as a bad move." "There's a theory that states that if anyone ever figures out the reason what the Universe is 4 & why we're here, that it will disappear & be replaced by something even more bizarre & inexplicable. Then there's another theory that states that this has already happened."

Chrystos, a brilliant Two-Spirit writer from the Menominee, offered me this: "Most tribes had more than two genders. The concept of Two-Spiritedness is a rough translation into English of that. I think the English language is rigid and thought patterns that form it are rigid, so gender becomes rigid." - Leslie Feinberg's "Transgender Warriors"

"B4 our white bros came 2 civilize us, we had no jails, so no criminals. If a man had no tipi, some1 gave him 1. We're 2 uncivilized 2 set much value on items. We only wanted 2 have them 2 give away. No written law, no lawyers, so we couldnt cheat. Really were in a bad way b4 the white man came. Dunno how we managed 2 get along w/o the basic things which r absolutely necessary 2 make a civ. soc."

"There are 400 billion stars out there in our galaxy alone. Now if only one out of a million of those stars had planets & if just one out of a million of those had life & if just one out of a million of those had intelligent life, there would be literally millions of civilizations out there... The Universe is a pretty big place. So if it is just us, seems like an awful waste of space." - CONTACT

"This ... will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all. And the dead will be commemorated, and we'll struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come." - Prior Walter (Angels In America)