Michael Nava on Philosophy
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Michael Nava, catalogued under Philosophy, with dates where available.
This page displays 5 quotations attributed to Michael Nava and filed under "Philosophy" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Michael Nava, entry #185042: "Damn, it's tough being a fag. People hate you who don't even know you, and the ones who know you, they're worse."
Attributed to Michael Nava, entry #39583: "We are all birds in cages, but some of us find reason to sing."
5 Quotes by Michael Nava on Philosophy
"Damn, it's tough being a fag. People hate you who don't even know you, and the ones who know you, they're worse."
"We are all birds in cages, but some of us find reason to sing."
"Being out of the closet is a luxury that many gay people can't afford. Maybe you can't understand that, but it's something I think about."
"I smiled as charmingly as I knew how. Her hard, intelligent face showed no sign of being charmed."
"It was the mystery of my sexual nature that a body which was the mirror image of mine could be so compelling and feel so unfamiliar. When I was younger, it had seemed urgent to unravel this mystery because I believed that if it could be explained, the haters would stop hating us. Now I believed that they had no more right to an explanation about me than I did about them and, in any case, they would find other reasons to hate. Now I was simply grateful for his body beside me, known and unknown."