“Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not tha
“Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore”“The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in”“The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden – as an unpatriotic act – that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.”James Baldwin -- source link
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