Nice Straight People are a Piece of Cake

This is one of the few useful, practical and not-dumb things I have ever said--which Marcus noted, remembered, and several times repeated back to me, over the course of the many years that we knew one another. It means: Stupid, or Unenlightened (Straight), People can still be "Nice," i.e., be well-intended, have good manners--and respond favorably to being treated kindly and politely. 

You'll notice a certain o'erweening presumption....