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Benjamin Alire Saenz

"Maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. That's not how the heart worked. The heart didn't make lists."

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Asa Don Brown

"Let's not judge people by the color of their skin but those who makes us feel we are different from each other.- Abdulazeez Henry Musa."

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Asa Don Brown

"I am not red or blue. I am red, white and blue. Those are the same colors in my body (my heart, blood and veins). I am only human, and the human race is the only race in which I am an active participant - mind, body and soul."

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Asa Don Brown

"Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves."

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Asa Don Brown

"There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle."

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Asa Don Brown

"No other being is lesser human than the one who thinks of others as such."

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Asa Don Brown

"I have a little moral trouble with the term "mankind, as it possesses an innate gender bias, which I cannot approve of, hence, I prefer the term "humanity over it, and the term "human over "man."

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Asa Don Brown

"Sometimes she would be engaged in a laboratory exercise or a seminar when the instructor would say, "Gentlemen, let's proceed," and sensing Ellie's frown would add, "Sorry, Miss Arroway, but I think of you as one of the boys." The highest compliment they were capable of paying was that in their minds she was not overtly female."

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Asa Don Brown

"Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!"

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Asa Don Brown

"We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that."

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"The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"Maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. That's not how the heart worked. The heart didn't make lists."

Equality

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe."

Nostalgia

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"I wished it was raining,' he said.'I don't need the rain,' I said. 'I need you."

Longing

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"Words exist only in theory. And then one ordinary day you run into a word that exists only in theory. And you meet it face to face. And then that word becomes someone you know. That word becomes someone you hate. And you take that word with you wherever you go. And you can't pretend it isn't there."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility."

Life

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"I wondered what it was like to feel whole, to not feel torn up or stunned out or wigged out or any of those things. I wondered what it was like to walk around the world looking up at the sky instead of searching the ground, eye to eye with things that crawled."

Reflection

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop.I knew that a part of him would never be the same.They cracked more than his ribs."

Family

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"In the distance, I can see a storm coming in, the dark clouds and the lightning on the horizon moving towards me. I wait and I wait and I wait for the storm. And then it comes, and the rains wash away the nightmares and the memories. And I'm not afraid."

Observation

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"I don't know what the exact shape of my life will take--and what the days to come will bring--except i know that i am happy and my heart is still. I know that I have fallen in love with the word surrender and know that I can no longer live in disappointment."

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Benjamin Alire Saenz
"I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us."

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