I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

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The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

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Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.

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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

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What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

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