Anne

“Married?” I asked, being ineptly sneaky.
“Nope. Gay,” Sam flatly stated, being honest and not sneaky at all. How can you not like a man like that?
I almost choked on a green bean. Before I could stop myself, the words were out of my mouth. “And I’m sure the gay world is happy as hell about it.”
-- Jason & Sam”
― John Inman, Spirit

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“I wanted to disappear. Instead, I grew to be six feet tall. Boys in particular seemed to assume that I had done this growing deliberately and that I should be ridiculed for it as often as possible.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories