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"Amnesty International Survey found that 25 percent of people believe a woman is to blame for being raped if she dresses "provocatively."

"We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins."

"Truth shrilled in prison or cemetary."

"When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement."

"I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know?"Well, you should be more careful where you drive," the officer said. "You're making people nervous. You don't fit the profile of the neighborhood."I wanted to tell him that I didn't fit the profile of the country but I knew it would just get me into trouble."

"The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see."
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"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."

"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."

"A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens."

"It is easy to love people in memory the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you."

"Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works."

"The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks."

"The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all."
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