The world demands that you introduce yourself twice, first as you are, and second as you are told to be. - Percival Everett

At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.

You know', I said, 'I have come to dislike museums.’ 'Why is that?’, she asked. 'It is where art comes to die.

We're slaves. We're not anywhere. Free person, he can be where he wants to be. The only place we can ever be is in slavery.