“I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What’s the line? I don’t have a line. ”
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“It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love”
― An Ideal Husband
― An Ideal Husband
“I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
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