Michael Nava: Quotes about people

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“[Asuras] "There are means people and there are ends people. The means people create distinctions among means and call it morality. The ends people understand that in this world, in this system we're born into, anything that gets you what you want is a good thing."”

Michael Nava

Source: The Burning Plain (1997), p.258 (Chapter 20)

People , World , Understanding

“[Henry, to Rod] "Hell's not a place, Rod, it's something people do to each other."”

Michael Nava

Source: The Burning Plain (1997), p.304 (Chapter 23)

People , Hell

“For many years, the single most potent weapon in the armoury of invisibility was the shame with which gay men and women were taught to regard their sexual nature. What kindles the fury of the antigay right at the gay and lesbian claim to equality and freedom is the implicit rejection of that shame. The energy released by that triumph over shame is what makes the movement so powerful. The gay and lesbian movement signals the existence of a people who have decided that they know more about themselves than what has been shoved down their throats by an ignorant and fearful society.”

Michael Nava

Source: Non-fiction, Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994), p.129-130

Freedom , People , Nature , Fear

“What is happening in contemporary American society is that people who prefer to be with members of their own sex no longer see this as a reason to be deprived of the rights to citizenship, family formation, and privacy.”

Michael Nava

Source: Non-fiction, Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994), p.7

Sex , Family , People

“This is my life, I thought, these are the people among whom I have spent it, prostitutes, tattooed boys with dead eyes, and horny cops.”

Michael Nava

Source: Henry Rios series of novels, Rag and Bone (2001), p.153

Dead , People , Boy , Tattoo

“They were empty gestures, the kind it was beginning to seem that these people were full of.”

Michael Nava

Source: Henry Rios series of novels, Goldenboy (1988), p.115

People

“All I knew about his life was that he had had the kind of childhood that turns people into psychological time bombs. How would I react when he started to go off? Did I have my own time bomb ticking away in me?”

Michael Nava

Source: Henry Rios series of novels, Rag and Bone (2001), p.174

Childhood , Life , Time , People