My father is a gypsy. He traveled in caravans and was branded by the Ku Klux Klan. You know I have a history about race in my family that has very much to do with the other things that you… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
Being respectful of extraordinary work that has happened in the last thirty-five years is not the same thing as it reflecting my values. I'm… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories. — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
Sex may be private in the way that you make love, but it's not private in the context of the world we live in. — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
If you want to be backed by corporations so that you're elected mayor, then it's going to be very problematic for you to support… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking. — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
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… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
Is it different to come out now than it was to come out thirty-five years ago? Sometimes. But if you come out now and you come from poverty and you come from racism, you come from the terror of communities that are immigrant communities or communities where you're already a moving target because of who you are, this is not… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share
If you're a person with resources who is LGBT, you may have some problems with that - but, frankly, you'll probably have an apartment. If you're poor, if you're transgender, if you're a person of color, if you're HIV positive and you're homeless, the ability to act on desire, the ability to be safely somewhere to make love with anybody… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share
If I'm fighting for the possibility of having a kind of desire and possibility, that right now is not too likely, it gives me… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
Frankly, sex work and stripping is very good if you have radical politics. You can go to meetings all night long. — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
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… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share
