When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy. ↗
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other. ↗
I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about. ↗
I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex. ↗