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“My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.”
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“We are permitted to suppose that the relatively small size of the female brain depends in part upon her physical inferiority and in part upon her intellectual inferiority.”
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“There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.”
Source : "Q&A with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf". Religion News Service Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012. 
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“I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama.”
Source : Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.58, Beacon Press
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“The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.”
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“What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.”
Source : Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.115, Vintage
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“The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first adult novel, Lucy Maud Montgomerys The Blue Castle.”
Source : "Coming of Age with the Ephron Sisters—and Their Mother" by Hallie Ephron, www.oprah.com. March 2013.
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“You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.”
