“Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream... and desire is part of that dream.” ThinkingDreamDesirePracticalsTrue You Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“In a different moment, in the 60s and 70s, I did believe we were going to succeed - that we were going to create a revolution, that America was going to be a completely transformed nation state and that there would be an amazingly different set of beliefs; that this country would reflect. And I thought that that was the fulfillment of the American democratic dream and I believed in it passionately.” BelieveDifferentCountryStatesMomentsDreamWould BeAmericaBeliefI BelieveNationsRevolutionSucceedDemocraticFulfillmentTransformed Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I worked very hard to try and figure out what I thought and I believed that we were going to succeed and that revolutions would happen globally and we would be a part of that and we would have then not capitalism. We would have values based on human lives, not profit. We would actually transform the kinds of ways people built love and built community. It was a very shocking thing to me, out of the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 80s, to realize that that dream - while I still believed in it - was not going to happen in the way that I had hoped.” PeopleWayTryingHumansKindStillsEndsHardDreamHappensWould BeValuesRealizingCommunityFiguresRevolutionSucceedCapitalismBuiltProfitHuman LifeShocking80sI Still BelieveShocking Things Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“For a political movement to not understand that sexuality is a profound component of both how people are oppressed and how people dream, is not to recognize the reality of political power and where it's centered.” PeopleDreamRealityPoliticalMovementProfoundSexualityOppressedComponentsPolitical PowerPolitical Movements Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.” ThinkingDreamSocialPossibilityExtraordinarySocial Change Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“To actually be possessed or possess someone in a way that is unimaginable when you're a young person struggling about your body and whether anybody would ever want you, that's a huge world and that doesn't shift because you're fifty; it doesn't shift because you're 80. It's a vision of the possibility of claiming the right to dream and imagine an impossible place that you were never allowed to go, but you want the world to have as a possibility in the future.” WorldWayWantPersonsDreamBodyYoungVisionStruggleImagineImpossiblePossibilityHugeYour BodyFiftyPossessedUnimaginable Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“If you can't do anything but fight, so every single solitary thing, every single solitary day, then the privilege of dreaming becomes something that only a few people have.” PeopleIfsDreamFightingPrivilegeSolitary Author:Amber Hollibaugh
