Unfortunately, I am reminded that hate and ignorance still reside with us in NYC as well as the rest of the country and the world.- Emanuel Xavier
Passage
Had they known I was gay they would have killed me
None of my poems about peace and unity
would have kept me whole
My thick skin, my loud mouth, my anger, my fists
The God above who watches over everything
Nothing would have prevented death
The redefining of machismo taught by fathers they never even met MORE