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Carmen Maria Machado
“You wish you could accurately describe the bone-deep ache of walking on that campus, the too-late realization that you'd fucked up your whole life by not having sufficient ambition. Who are you? You are nobody. You are nothing.”
Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

Oscar Wilde
“His great wealth was a certain element of security. Society - civilized society, at least - is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Michael Cunningham
“Again, always, the fundamental question: are you protecting your children or are you sowing the seeds of what will prove to be a lifetime of mistrust?”
Michael Cunningham, Day

Essex Hemphill
“Why should Africa's descendants base their lives and their future on the Koran, or the Bible? With all due respect, the Koran is not an artifact of African culture, it is Arabian. And the Bible in its present form was given to us by white slavemasters. Indeed, both books were introduced to Africa by people more interested in increasing their wealth than in Africa's well-being. Europeans and Arabs enslaved Africans. We don't owe them anything, so why should we be subservient to their books?
('Some thoughts on the challenges facing black gay intellectuals' by Ron Simmons)”
Essex Hemphill, Brother to Brother: New Writing by Black Gay Men

Philippe Besson
“You can never really let go of your childhood. Especially when it was happy.”
Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

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