"The reason for privacy is not so that……" — Samuel R. Delany
"The reason for privacy is not so that people will not know you go to the bathroom. It's to allow certain things to go on that you don't want other people to know about, when all is said and done. But the things I don't want other people to know about are not my sex life."
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41 Quotes by Samuel R. Delany
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Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.
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Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly…
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I read The NAMBLA Bulletin fairly regularly and I think it is one of the most intelligent discussions of sexuality…
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Suggestion is a literary strategy.
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Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and…
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It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have…
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It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody…
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What you are will make you what you will become.
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The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the…
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From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.
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I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.
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