Never Take An Elevator In City Hall.

Coming Out Is The Most Political Thing You Can Do

To Sit On The Front Steps — Whether It's A Veranda In A Small Town Or A Concrete Stoop In A Big City — And To Talk To Our Neighborhoods Is Infinitely More Important Than To Huddle On The Living-room Lounger And Watch A Make-believe World In Not-quite Living Color.

I Finally Reached The Point Where I Knew I Had To Become Involved Or Shut Up.

If You Are Not Personally Free To Be Yourself In That Most Important Of All Human Activities... The Expression Of Love... Then Life Itself Loses Its Meaning.

If A Bullet Should Enter My Brain, Let That Bullet Destroy Every Closet Door In The Country.