. 120

~ “That’s the most you can count on in this life.

~ Anything longer and you’re fooling yourself. Maybe
I was lucky feeling the way I did. Maybe I was
lucky being a Negro. I took the good things out of
gay life. I missed the trouble, the heartbreaks, the
falling in and out of love. All that crap. Except it’s
not crap. It’s deadly serious at the time.

“Nope, I don't think I would have made it if I
was a white queen.”