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Joyce Carol Oates

"The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives."

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Donna Grant

"We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence, a total immersion."

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Donna Grant

"Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves - and other animals."

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Donna Grant

"Cultural heritage define the uniqueness of individuals. Appreciate cultural diversity."

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Donna Grant

"The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy."

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Donna Grant

"Confession. Years ago, I was invited to a cocktail party for an Asian-American networking group. As I introduced myself to a Japanese businessman, I reached out and firmly shook his hand. Much to my embarrassment now, I automatically took my other hand and wrapped our hands in a "hand hug. This is a common gesture of friendship in the South. As his wife approached, however, she appeared appalled and felt disrespected that I was touching her husband. Our cultural differences were marked. Despite this cultural mishap, I was able to redeem myself. We all moved past it and delighted in an interesting conversation. Physical touch is a touchy topic (pun intended), especially when various cultures are involved."

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Donna Grant

"Strategy, role-model, systems thinking, trust, relationship management, balance, etc., are all important culture change principles."

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Donna Grant

"We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning."

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Donna Grant

"Culture and holiness must be made compatible in the environment of the kingdom."

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Donna Grant

"The American's literature is all about being hot and sexy, inspiring a girl and going to bed with her. It focuses on being a hero, saving lives and surviving last, but it has nothing to do with dignity, serenity."

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Donna Grant

"Could dump two Chinee down in one of our maria and they would get rich selling rocks to each other while raising twelve kids. Then a Hindu would sell retail stuff he got from them wholesale--below cost at a fat profit. We got along."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light."

Nature

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate."

Love

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves."

Nothing

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Still, I am angry with him. I am very angry with him. With my poor dead defenseless husband, I am furious as I was rarely-perhaps never-furious with him, in life. How can I forgive you, you've ruined both our lives."

Emotion

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"I feel very transparent in myself. I'm more of an observer. I'm interested in what's going on. I'm not sure that I really have a personality. Some people think I do have a personality. I have a personality when I am with certain people - but when I'm not with them I don't have that personality. I just sort of go back to resembling a transparent glass of water."

Self

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Joyce Carol Oates
"A wet autumn morning, a garbage truck clattering down the street. The first snowfall of the season, blossom sized flakes falling languidly and melting on teh ground, a premature snow fall delicate as lace, rapidly melting."

Nature

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Joyce Carol Oates
"It is utterly naive, futile, uninformed-to think that our species is exceptional. So designated to master the beasts of the Earth, as in the Book of Genesis!"

Philosophy

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Joyce Carol Oates
"The coolly calibrated manipulation of the credulous American public, by an administration bent upon stoking paranoid patriotism!"

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