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- The only reason race matters is because of racism.
- I had people read it early on and, you know, well-meaning people said to me, you should take out the blogs. I didn't get much…
- For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the…
- The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story…
- Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.
- When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that…
- There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt.…
- Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.
- She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like…
- I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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