terence

What unjust judges fathers are of all
Young men! They think it only right that we
Should be born old men, instantly, as boys,
Not privy to what adolescense brings.
They govern as their passion now dictates,
Not as it used to be. If I ever do have
A son, he'll have an easygoing father,
I swear; allowance made for his straying,
An understanding of it, and forgiveness.
Not like my father, who points out to me
His own views through another. (432)

Terence. The Self-Tormentor. Trans. Palmer Bovie. Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman. Ed. Robert W. Corrigan. New York: Applause, 1987. 421-484.

terence

I am a man: nothing that is human is foreign to my interests. (425)

Terence. The Self-Tormentor. Trans. Palmer Bovie. Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman. Ed. Robert W. Corrigan. New York: Applause, 1987. 421-484.

Alternatively translated:

I am a man and I consider nothing human foreign to me. (414)

Bovie, Palmer. "Introduction." Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman. Ed. Robert W. Corrigan. New York: Applause, 1987. 413-419.

grayson

There are times when I wish Noah would at least feign interest in what I'm doing so I could at least update him on Green Arrow and Speedy. By 2000 there was a new Speedy, a former prostitute named Mia who was HIV-postive. Green Arrow decided to lose his mask when someone pointed out it did not disguise his identity at all.

But those moments pass, and when we look at each other, it's as if history didn't exist. (101)

Grayson, Richard. "1001 Ways to Defeat Green Arrow." And to Think He Kissed Him on Lorimer Street and Other Stories. Brooklyn: Dumbo Books, 2006. 94-101.

grayson

In the Sixties everyone who disagreed with us was a fascist. The war, of course, was a fascist war. ITT and Dow Chemical were fasist corporations. Israel was a fascist country even though it was Jewish. All Republicans except John Lindsay were fascists. I spelled America with a K and Nixon with a swastika.

In the Sixties it never occurred to me that I might one day become a fascist myself. (24)

Grayson, Richard. "In the Sixties." And to Think He Kissed Him on Lorimer Street and Other Stories. Brooklyn: Dumbo Books, 2006. 19-24.

lorde

call me
roach and presumptuous
nightmare on your white pillow
your itch to destroy
the indestructible
part of yourself (230-231)

Lorde, Audre. from "The Brown Menace or Poem to the Survival of Roaches." The New York Head Shop and Museum. Detroit: Broadside, 1974. 48. Reprinted in Moraga, Cherríe. "La Güera." Come Out Fighting: A Century of Essential Writing on Gay and Lesbian Liberation. Ed. Chris Bull. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2001. 225-233.