I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.
I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.
My father and his brothers never mentioned to their English wives and children that they were Jewish. Being Hungarian was exotic and foreign enough to begin with, and so long as they were not asked, they found it easier, from 1919 on, to let the matter drop.
One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.
The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.
The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level of religious thought, to conceal, embellish or justify the actual relationships which prevail among the living.
