"My father is a gypsy. He traveled in caravans and was branded by the Ku Klux Klan. You know I have a history about race in my family that has very much to do with the other things that you name about poverty, about class, about access - or lack of it."

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Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Amber Hollibaugh

#Father Quotes #Race Quotes #Class Quotes

“I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.”
“Reality is always controlled by the people who are the most insane.”
“Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.”
“I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.”
“I have seen my Lord with the eye of my heart, and I said: 'Who are You?' He said: 'You.'”
“When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.”
“I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be. I want the masses to perform. When I work with forms and colors, I get the edge...”
“The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. .”

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