The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.

Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.

I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.

Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.