"The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire, Cal Ripken Jr., and Brady Anderson were protected and coddled in a way that an outspoken Latino like me never would be. The light-eyed and white-skinned were declared household names. Canseco the Cuban was left out in the cold, where racism and double standards rule."

-- Jose Canseco

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“The way I perform best is with a clear and happy mind.”
“If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver.”
“If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will remain.”
“You maggots make me sick, I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells within us all.”
“Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.”
“Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.”
“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”

Source : Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.69, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
“There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have seen, I show the man that I have been As simply as a poet can Who knows himself poet and man.”

Source : Thomas MacDonagh, “Of My Poems”

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