I suppose I knew I was gay at age 11 or so.

I grew up thinking the best job in the world would be a Jedi and being a psychologist is the closest thing I could get, so I wanted to be a Jedi and I don't want to be a Sith, so that is what keeps me on the straight and narrow.

I'd probably have to leave home in order to become a basketball player of any note.

Combining the lack of emotional literacy they may be imbued with, with the fact that if you're black you're not supposed to be that smart and if you... as a boy you're not even supposed to like school. All of the sudden you've got kids who are afraid, black kids and Latino kids who are afraid to be great, afraid to bask in the enjoyment of education, lest they be labeled less than black, less than Latino, less they be called the oreo.

You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.

I always think coming out is something that you do for people who really deserve it. It should be.

In a country like America, there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means division, where it means potentially abuse.