Quote by Ernest Gaines
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two m

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? – Ernest Gaines

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What I miss today more than anything else – I dont go to church as much anymore – but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing. – Ernest Gaines

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Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. – Matthew Arnold, "Self-Dependence," Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems,

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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. – Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986)

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For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun. Then I realized that what I really wanted to be was a lesbian. – Mabel Maney (b.1958)

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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. – Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, 1978

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