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“Any world which did not have a place for me loving women was not a world in which I wanted to live, nor one which I could fight for.”
― Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?”
― Dennis Cooper, The Marbled Swarm