Kevin Sessums Quotes

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• When one person mentors, two lives are changed.

  Kevin Sessums

  Two, Mentor, Changed

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• I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about.

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  Gay, Thinking, People

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• There's always a door you don't get in. I'm a star in my own right for certain things. I'll own that. During Oscar weekend I did fabulous things. But there's still one inner sanctum I'm not allowed in. That's the one I'm fixated on.

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  Stars, Weekend, Doors

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• We don't like to say that [my wife was Jewish] because her mother was Jewish, which means she was Jewish. So don't imply that my wife was a shikse.

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  Mother, Mean, Wife

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• "Weenie" was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you were going by a different name.

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  Yale, Names, Different

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.

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  Believe, Class, Kramer

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• Larry [Kramer] and I often disagree. There was the whole meshuggaas we went through about his donating his papers to Yale, and I disagreed with him on a number of things about that. You wanted a gay center.

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  Gay, Yale, Numbers

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• [Larry Kramer] said, when it was all about to fall through, "You betrayed me, Calvin." And I said, "I resent that. I was against you from the beginning."

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  Fall, Betrayed, Kramer

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• I had no administrative function at the New Yorker. I am what we used to call in construction back in Kansas City where I grew up "a dog-ass subcontractor."

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  Dog, Cities, Kansas City

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• I get rejections from the New Yorker. When I had to give a little talk to the people graduating from the MBA program at Columbia who were going into writing and filmmaking and everything, I said, "When I tried to think of what to say, the only subject I thought was appropriate for people doing what you're going to do is rejection." That's what it's all about.

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  Writing, Thinking, Mba Programs

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• There was a Yale even before Larry [Kramer] and I got there, and there were three designations of students: "white shoe," "brown shoe," and "black shoe." "White shoe" people were kind of the ur-preppies from high-class backgrounds. "Brown shoe" people were kind of the high school student-council presidents who were snatched up and brushed up a little bit to be sent out into the world. "Black shoe" people were beyond the pale. They were chemistry majors and things like that.

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  School, Yale, Class

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• I was not "shoe." That's a misuse of the term "shoe," which is derived from "white shoe."

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  Shoes, White, Misuse

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends.

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  Yale, Kramer, Mutual

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.

  Kevin Sessums

  Men, Yale, Term

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• [ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.

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  Men, Cities, America

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• I think basically what The American People is about is that we've been here from the very beginning, and that has never ever been acknowledged in the history books. John Winthrop wasn't off the boat ten seconds before he passes a law that homosexuals should be hanged. And then he hung 'em, including an attempt to hang his own son when he found out he was gay.

  Kevin Sessums

  Book, Son, Gay

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.

  Kevin Sessums

  Done

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• I never appear in any of your work, come to think of it, Calvin [Trillin]. And I look.

  Kevin Sessums

  Thinking, Looks

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• Everyone disappoints [Larry Kramer]. So it's not a problem for him either way.

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  Way, Problem, Kramer

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• Those people are seen, I assume, by Larry [Kramer] as writing partly about gay issues and problems, whether it's on the surface or not, and I am not. But another thing is when we met, there still wasn't exactly a gay/straight divide in the minds of a lot of straight people. There weren't any gay people, as far as we knew, at Yale.

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  Writing, Gay, Yale

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• I think it's a Jewish Yale custom. I wasn't aware that other people celebrated Christmas. My wife was very big on Christmas, and I was very big on my wife.

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  Thinking, Yale, People

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• I wrote an essay too, and mine started something like, "When I was asked to contribute to this book, I said, 'I could do a piece on [Larry] Kramer as a pain in the ass, but I suppose you have too many of those, as it is.'" And Sarah's began something like, "When I read about America's angriest AIDS activist, I can't believe they are talking about my sweet Uncle Larry."

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  Sweet, Uncles, Pain

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• [Larry Kramer] even wrote this angry letter to the president of Yale, and in it he said what he said to us, that he was so disappointed in his straight friends because of AIDS and everything. He wrote the letter around March. And in it he wrote, "I usually go to the Trillins for Christmas, but I just couldn't do it this year."

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  Yale, Years, President

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• [Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary of Heath and Human Services, Louis Sullivan, against which Larry led a demonstration. He got the demonstrators to drown out Sullivan's speech, which wasn't allowed.

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  Yale, Mad, President

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• [Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.

  Kevin Sessums

  Gay, Thinking, Max

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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