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“Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.”

Home Earth Names Nations Chance Cities Skins Praise Green Here And There Workshops Green Earth

Book:The Poems of Basil Bunting

Source: The Poems of Basil Bunting

“I think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.”

Thinking Cities New York Comfort Comfortable Skins New York City Comfortable In Your Own Skin

Author:Alex Rodriguez

“[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.”

People Black White Cities Skins Dirty Paris Yards Pigeons White Skin

Author:Albert Camus

“One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. You are as if born again, in the sense of the snake: You leave your skin behind and you begin again. For most people in the world, that is totally impossible.”

Source: Conversations with Isabel Allende

“If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.”

Ifs Men Should Change Cities Color Skins Claims Equality Sections Equality Of People Equality Of Man Large Cities

Book:Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

“Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.”

Wealth Animal Cities Materials Hair Skins Majority Population Treated Indian Oppressed 1930s Excluded Raw Materials Bolivia Vermin Ddt

Author:Evo Morales

“She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.”

Said Real Country Running Mother Cities Sun Fields Skins Fruit Belly Ripe Morose Ripe Fruit Hibernation

Book:The House of the Spirits: A Novel

Source: The House of the Spirits: A Novel

“When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected establishments, find the powerful people who run them and are viewed as invincible, and kill them. You want to destroy the morale first. Once the people's resolve is gone and everyone is scared for their own skin, the city is yours.”

People Want Firsts Wells Running Powerful Cities Gone Illusion Skins Safety Scared Resolve Establishment Protected Invincible Morale Magic Bleeds

Author:Ilona Andrews

“His fingers skimmed down her body, over skin and satin, and she shivered, leaning into him, and she was sure they both tasted like blood and ashes and salt, but it didn't matter; the world, the city, and all it's lights and life seemed to have narrowed down to this, just her and Jace, the burning heart of a frozen world.”

World Heart Matter Body Light Peace Cities Blood Skins Fingers Burning Salt Ashes Jace Frozen Satin Burning Heart

Book:City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck --- it rises.”

Feels I Can Young Walks Cities Streets Hair Holy Skins Necks Pedestrians City Streets Solipsism

Book:Wilderness

Source: Wilderness

“Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his inner ear so he could leave this world as he'd entered it through the undependable irrational influence of water. -Kevin Jeffery Clark It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.”

Ifs World Years Whole Wanted Lasts Water Dark Secret Cities Sea Influence This World Skins Ears Harder Blue Glasses Deeper Nervous Last Year Irrational Suicidal Somewhere Else Pulse Thumbs Kevin

Author:Sylvia Plath