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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
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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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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."
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"I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!"
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"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."
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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
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"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable."
Mother

"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
Writer

"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
Anthropology

"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
Anthropology

"I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now."
People

"My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things."
People

"Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him."
People

"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
Science

"Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue."
Feminism

"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."
Anthropology
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