"I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that."

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"I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that."

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"Everything I'd been longing to get away from, true, but not through destruction. I'd wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at will."

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"I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns."

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"We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets."

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"My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home."

Smokey Robinson, American Musician

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"Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time."

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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home."

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"In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport."

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"I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man."

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"We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre."

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"Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine."

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"We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class."

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