"We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares."

-- Tom Lehrer

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“In I'm Not A Racist, But..., Lawrence Blum offers answers for our time about what race is, who is a racist, and ways for people to talk about the racialized features of our society without falling into name-calling or defensiveness. With exemplary moral and analytic clarity, Blum offers educators, students, lawyers, judges, leaders, and citizens tools for building a nation of equality, comity, and respect for each person.”
“We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking at, but starting afresh.”
“In the morning I get out of bed, I brush my teeth, I wash my face, I get dressed in the clothes I like best. I want to be good to myself.”

Source : Matthew Dickman, Michael Dickman (2016). “Brother”, p.12, Faber & Faber
“Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work. They've got a new perspective on it, they've got more resources, they have better technology, and they can fix or finish the things that were never done.”
“If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.”
“I try not to be hateful.”
“A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.”
“Sometimes I forget what I put in. I want to capture things in that way, where you're looking into your memory, a dream or hallucination. The characters become a mixture of archetypes, [and] that's what I like. You're trying to figure it out and your brain wants to categorize things, but it can't because of this motion. You want to solve the problem, but it never gets solved. It's like when you read a really good book and the story never leaves you.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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