El hombre, cuando es solamente lo que parece ser el hombre, casi no es nada.

Flav, you look like a skeleton wrapped in electrical tape.

The male is just a bundle of conditioned reflexes, is incapable of a mentally free response, is tied to his early conditioning, is determined completely by his past experiences. His earliest experiences are with his mother, and he is throughout his life tied to her. It never becomes completely clear to the male that he is not part of his mother, that he is him and she is her.

I'm just portraying this guy.

Man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

Although wanting to be an individual, the male is scared of anything about him that's the slightest bit different from other men; it causes him to suspect he's not really a "Man," that he's passive and totally sexual, a highly upsetting suspicion. If other men are A and he's not, he must be not a man; he must be a fag. So he tries to affirm his "Manhood" by being like all the other men. Differentness in other men, as well as in himself, threatens him; it means they're fags, who he must, at all costs, avoid, so he tries to ensure that all other men conform.

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

I acted like a human male. When I act like a human male it doesn't make me less human, it just makes me less female.

I am nothing but I must be everything.

I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

How could this nasty twerp be so ferally sexual dressed nearly as a boy?

At the end of the day and at the beginning of the day, I am a man who dresses up like a lady who is from outer space. Not everyone is going to get that. Not everyone is going to be on board with that. And not everyone is going to be able to swallow that.