I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine. - James Baldwin

A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind: It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction.

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

I am beginning to feel like part of a travelling circus.