It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.

a man only knows what he's experienced

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.

Jetta Carleton

I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature has good reason for exacting her own special sacrifices from those determined to witness them.

Richard Byrd

But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.

David Levithan

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.?

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!

Chandler Massey

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

Theodore Bikel

We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.

Jenifer Lewis

All stories are love stories.

Robert McLiam Wilson