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Everything a lie. Everything you hear, everything you see. So much to spew out. They just keep coming, one after another. You’re in a box, a moving box. They want you dead or in their lie. Only one thing a man can do: Find something that’s his. Make an island for himself. If I never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack. A glance from your eyes and my life will be yours.
I’m a little short this week, I’d give ya cab fare but I don’t think it’s a long walk home. … First time I had sex, seven years old. The guitar. Right, well that’s why we came up here. Alright, you get dressed. I’m a little exhausted. What’s your favorite song? Look who I’m askin’.
It’s nice isn’t it? To sit out here. … I couldn’t stand looking through the fridge trying to find room for all that food we’re gonna throw away in the next few days. … I just can’t let anything get fucked up in these next few days, cause that’s all anybody will ever remember about her. There’s one thing you could always say about Katie even when she was little; that girl was neat. When I got outta the joint, you know after Marita died, I remember I was more afraid of my little daughter than I ever was of being in prison. I loved her, the most. ‘Cause when we were sittin’ in that kitchen that night it was like we were the last two people on earth. Forgotten. Unwanted. And it’s really starting to piss me off, Dave, because I can’t cry for her. My own little daughter and I can’t even cry for her. … I just want to hug her one more time. She was nineteen fuckin’ years old.
My name is Harvey Milk and I’m here to recruit you. I want to recruit you for the fight to preserve your democracy. Brothers and sisters, you must come out! Come out to your parents, come out to your friends, if indeed they are your friends. Come out to your neighbors, come out to your fellow workers. Once and for all, let’s break down the myths and destroy the lies and distortions. For your sake, for their sake. For the sake of all the youngsters who have been scared by the votes from Dade to Eugene. On the Statue of Liberty it says, ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free.’ In the Declaration of Independence, it is written, ‘All men are created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights.’ So for Mr. Briggs and Mrs. Bryant, and all the bigots out there, no matter how hard you try, you can never erase those words from the Declaration of Independence! No matter how hard you try, you can never chip those words from the base of the Statue of Liberty! That is where America is! Love it or leave it!
I ask this… If there should be an assassination, I would hope that five, ten, one hundred, a thousand would rise. I would like to see every gay lawyer, every gay architect come out. If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door… And that’s all. I ask for the movement to continue. Because it’s not about personal gain, not about ego, not about power… it’s about the “us’s” out there. Not only gays, but the Blacks, the Asians, the disabled, the seniors, the us’s. Without hope, the us’s give up – I know you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. So you, and you, and you… You gotta give em’ hope… you gotta give em’ hope.
Mr. Delacroix, I don’t wanna leave this world with any hate in my heart. I ask your forgiveness for what I done. It was a terrible thing I done, taking your son away from you… Mr. and Mrs. Percy, I hope my death gives you some relief. I just wanna say I think killin’ is wrong, no matter who does it, whether it’s me or y’all or your government.