Chirlane McCray Quotes

I'm married, I'm monogamous, but I'm not dead, and Bill isn't either.

I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider.

In the 1970s, I identified as a lesbian and wrote about it. In 1991, I met the love of my life, married him.

You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.

I like to go to the subway and hear what people are thinking and feeling and what their concerns are. You learn so much that way. You really do.

Finding the right person can be so hard that often, when a person finally finds someone she or he is comfortable with, she or he just makes it work.