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Michelle Tea is an American author, poet, and literary arts organizer whose autobiographical works explore queer culture, feminism, race, class, sex work, and other topics. She is originally from Chelsea, Massachusetts and currently lives in Los Angeles. Her books, mostly memoirs, are known for their views into the queercore community. Wikipedia  

✵ 1971
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Famous Michelle Tea Quotes

“You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.”

Michelle Tea

“Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.”

Michelle Tea

Source: Rose of No Man's Land

“you are right where you should be / now act like it”

Michelle Tea

Source: The Beautiful: Collected Poems

“i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.”

Michelle Tea

Source: Rent Girl

“How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her, how do you give her a new set of eyes and turn her face back to the mirror?”

Michelle Tea

“Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.”

Michelle Tea

“The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.”

Michelle Tea

Source: The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America

“Remember when i slept with my head
in a puddle at your feet?
It was humility, or atonement.
later your ankle was a pillow and
finally you pulled me up and in my sleep i
placed your hand above my heart,
like i forgot i didn't live there
anymore”

Michelle Tea

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