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“The crime of capitalism is that it forces the vast majority of the population to remain preoccupied with basic concerns of nutrition, housing, health, and skill acquisition. It leaves little time for fostering the community and creativity that humans crave”

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“Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.”

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“To punish someone for your own mistakes or for the consequences of your own actions, to harm another by shifting blame that is rightly yours; this is a wretched and cowardly sin.”

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Book:Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

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“Strange that people are happy to adopt epithets they would fight to the death to throw off had they been imposed.”

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Book:Look To Windward

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“The “b” word and the “n” word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Bavarian crystal, it is still poison.”

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Book:I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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“I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks. But what I am is one-hundred-per-cent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don’t ever call me a Polack.”

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“Love is the nature of the soul and when you truly love with all your heart and soul it gives you the most beautiful feeling of life.”

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“I noticed that among this class of colored men the word "nigger" was freely used in about the same sense as the word "fellow," and sometimes as a term of almost endearment; but I soon learned that its use was positively and absolutely prohibited to white men.”

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Book:The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

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“An ego devoted to fighting against all the world’s slurs is bound for trouble.”

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Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

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