Modern Quote by Camille Paglia

Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and…

— Robert Moss

I happen to believe that trans people are anointed, and because of our experiences and the unique way we see the world, we can…

— Trace Lysette

I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to…

— Mordecai Richler

The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.

— Laverne Cox

I contend that the problem with transsexualism would best be served by morally mandating it out of existence

— Janice Raymond

I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have…

— Adrienne Rich

It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads.

— Willam Belli

Transsexualism itself is a deeply moral question rather than a medicaltechnical answer.

— Janice Raymond

“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past and the…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I see myself as coming out of a trans tradition. There's a number of trans writers before me who wrote great novels.

— Torrey Peters

The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion…

— Terence McKenna

[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this light, as…

— Sheila Jeffreys