"I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent."

-- Godfrey

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“I'm the sort of person who likes to undo everything.”
“I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.”
“I don't know if I'd go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien's vibe. I'm a vibe person.”
“To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?”
“He was the up and equal homosexual who would not sit at the back of the bus.”
“Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.”

Source : Poems (1963 ed.) "Strange Meeting"
“Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.”
“I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.”

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