"The frustration of being marginalized often gets misdirected at the most visible members of one's own community, because they are more accessible than the real agents of marginalization."

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Source : "Carnal Knowledge". Interview with Marie-Helene Westgate, www.guernicamag.com. February 15, 2013.

Melissa Febos

#Real Quotes #Frustration Quotes #Community Quotes

“If you witness (the problems in the world), your outlook on life will change. You will understand how fortunate and well-off you are, (â€¦). You will understand that you are so safe from the risk of air raids and landmines.”
“Sometimes people runâ€¦ to see if you'll come after them”
“It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.”
“There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.”
“I do feel a responsibility because most people like me that are my age or younger, they don't quite make it over to the jazz side. They flirt with it, but they don't quite marry it.”
“For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!”
“Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more.”
“Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.”

Source : C.S. Friedman (2001). “In Conquest Born”, p.44, Penguin

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