What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament. - Christopher Isherwood

A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of a threat to the majority, real or imaginary.

At one campus where I was lecturing, I asked a friend, "How many of my colleagues know I'm gay?" He answered, "All of them." I wasn't surprised. But, just the same, it was kind of spooky, because not one of them had ever given me the faintest sign that he or she knew. If I had spoken about it myself, most of them would have felt it was in bad taste.

She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.