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"They've been practicing racism so long, it's perfect."
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"Truth shrilled in prison or cemetary."

"Put the case that he lived in an atmosphere of evil, and that all he saw of children was their being generated in great numbers for certain destruction. Put the case that he often saw children solemnly tried at a criminal bar, where they were held up to be seen; put the case that he habitually knew of their being imprisoned, whipped, transported, neglected, cast out, qualified in all ways for the hangman, and growing up to be hanged. Put the case that pretty nigh all the children he saw in his daily business life he had reason to look upon as so much spawn, to develop into the fish that were to come to his net,""to be prosecuted, defended, forsworn, made orphans, bedevilled somehow."

"Within living memory of this country, men could rape their wives: women were not seen as a separate sexual entity, with the right of refusal."

"From my keen observation, it is a very sad fact that the Philippines' current administration's drug war crisis has fully pressed the pedal of acceleration to more division, hatred, cycles of violence (copycat killings, summary killings, extra judicial killings, collateral victims of drug war), toxic revenge, and perpetual impunity."

"If you kill a black man, the world is silent. You can hear a garage door opening from twenty blocks away. You can pick up a pay phone and only hear the dial tone. Shooting stars sound exactly like the soft laughter of a little girl in Gasworks Park. If you kill a white man, the world erupts with noise: fireworks, sirens, a gavel pounding a desk, the slamming of doors."

"Police officers seem nice until they start targeting you for stops, give you a bogus speeding ticket and write fake police reports about their interactions with you."

"Amnesty International Survey found that 25 percent of people believe a woman is to blame for being raped if she dresses "provocatively."
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"The world is full of 'friends' of suicide victims thinking 'if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something."

"There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated."

"I don't believe in sin. My relationships that failed have failed because I somehow attract devout christians. I don't believe in virtue either. I think people just do shit and it's life."

"One day we fall in love with the one who makes us live intensely and laugh hard and heavy. And as hard as we love them, their friend loves us back equally and we just can't be."

"Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality."

"It's okay to not know who you are and what you want. Those with the answers are usually very happy in their own stuck-ness."
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