David Wojnarowicz Quotes

When I put my hands on your body on your flesh I feel the history of that body. Not just the beginning of its forming in that distant lake but all the way beyond its ending. I feel the warmth and text...

When I put my hands on your body on your flesh I feel the history of that body. Not just the beginning of its forming in that distant lake but all the way beyond its ending. I feel the warmth and text...

David Wojnarowicz

Tags: love, memories

It is exhausting living in a population where people don't speak up if what they witness doesn't directly threaten them.

David Wojnarowicz

It is exhausting living in a population where people don't speak up if what they witness doesn't directly threaten them.

David Wojnarowicz

Tags: activist, artists, gay, lgbt, lgbt rights

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David Michael Wojnarowicz ( VOY-nə-ROH-vitch; September 14, 1954 – July 22, 1992) was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, songwriter/recording artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the East Village art scene. He incorporated personal narratives influenced by his struggle with AIDS as well as his political activism in his art until his death from the disease in 1992.