I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.

When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, "I am not lesser!" Some people can do it and some cannot; and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.

Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.

We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, "Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you are evil and bad." Anything that even implies such a stance is profoundly toxic.

Despair is part of love.

I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.

Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.