The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approac...h of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The prig never learns anything unconsciously or instinctively. He learns only what he feels is worth learning; anything else he no...t only scorns but fears, or regards as compromise, contamination, deterioration. Your prig lives in a kind of many-windowed, not to say entirely glassed-in, dwelling, bathed in a prim religious light; but the windows themselves he never opens, for fear that something may blow in from the street. He wants light without air, he prefers purity to humanity, in all too many cases the campus to the cosmos. He is the most complacent of men, where the snob will often be the most worried; and he is not, like the snob, observant, so he is not, like the snob, adaptable. He is rigid equally by temperament and by training--rigid in all big ways, where the snob is only in small. For the snob, at his Proust-like task of studying the great world, there may be only one place to go for neckties; for the prig there is only one way of going to heaven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Too late have I loved you, o beauty so ancient and young; too late have I loved you! And behold you were inside of me, and I was o...utside of myself, and that was where I was looking for you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These young women have had four years of very special space.... This has been special space. This has been safe space. But when th...ey graduate, they will begin to deal on a daily basis, all day long, month after month, year after year, with the realities that still haunt our nation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »