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- Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
- I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.
- Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which…
- My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I had…
- Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That’s all you need to know in this life…just the certainty that God’s got…
- ... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the…
- I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your…
- I was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats.
- Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the…
- For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at all. Me, I…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle