I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them are close friends of mine.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

I'm still afraid. I'm still afraid every day.

If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee

Where I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in a neighborhood where very, very few people look like me.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.