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John C. Hawkes

"In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old."

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"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."

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"Happy the people whose annals are vacant."

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"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."

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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

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