Rambling Reader

“No one respected them for their labor in a country where the idea of honorable poverty had vanished.”
― Edmund White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty

“Then I caught myself foolishly imagining that gays might someday constitute a community rather than a diagnosis.”
― Edmund White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty

“The sun found over there a single small window to dazzle - - just as I imagined God, if He existed, might find in a whole crowd only one soul turned at the right angle to reflect his glory.”
― Edmund White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty

“Too many of us still tend to regard Africa as a country. It may come as a brutal shock to realize that the African landmass is three times the size of Europe and four times that of the United States. Madagascar, which is a part of Africa, is the fourth-largest island in the world. Too many folk still talk about people speaking African, ignoring the fact that over 1,000 different languages are spoken on this continent that comprises many worlds...It is a continent with many doors, many different points of entry into a world that is wondrous and strange.”
― Jessica B. Harris, The Africa Cookbook