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"We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country."
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"If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European."

"If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion."

"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."

"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."

"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."

"The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing."

"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."

"I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat."

"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."
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"We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement."

"I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed."

"We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio."

"Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids."

"Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!"

"We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country."
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