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"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."

"People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best."

"A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering."

"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies."

"I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart."
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"An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution."

"In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people."

"Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country."

"One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty."

"But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down."

"The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!"
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