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“Listen,†F. Jasmine said. “What I’ve been trying to say is this. Doesn’t it strike you as strange that I am I, and you are you? I am F. Jasmine Addams. And you are Berenice Sadie Brown. And we can look at each other, and touch each other, and stay together year in and year out in the same room. Yet always I am I, and you are you. And I can’t ever be anything else but me, and you can ever be anything else but you. Have you ever thought of that? And does it seem to you strange?”
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“The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for revenge are 'report a crime' and 'report to five families.' The reporting is the vengeance-not the beheading, not the gutting, but the words.”
Source : Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.62, Vintage
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“More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.”
Source : "We Live Here: Live In Japan". DVD, March 12, 2013.
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“One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.”
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“Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.”
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“Relationship Principle 6 Men see how you dress, and then make assumptions about your relationship potential.”
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“I hope I have repaid Australia for the humanity it showed me, as it has shown to so many others over the years.”
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“I was extremely excited personally about the Obama-Biden victory.”
