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"People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans."
"Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures."
"The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all."
"That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition."
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"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."
"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."
"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
"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."
"After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor."
"It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something."
"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."
"Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills."
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