In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then. – Arthur Bremer
Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes, And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Homosexuality is a sickness, just as are baby-rape or wanting to become head of General Motors. – Eldridge Cleaver, "Notes on a Native Son," Soul on Ice, 1968