Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.

Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.

If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.

I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.

all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.