"Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I'd lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn't understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had to look at them to see how special they were, like hidden royalty among us. Eddie Hazelwurst. What a shitbucket."

-- Sue Monk Kidd

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“You just write about things that happen.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.”

Source : "When I Was 17: Jenna Ushkowitz". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. August 17, 2012.
“Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold.”
“I remember reading Paul Fussell my first year teaching at U of Hawai'i and being like, oh, it has a turn! Why didn't anyone tell me?”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.”
“Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.”

Source : P.T. Barnum (2016). “The Art of Money Getting”, p.27, BookRix
“Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.”

Source : Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan”, p.77
“On the morning in question, she wore white shorts and a pink T-shirt that featured a green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter. It is difficult to explain how awesome I found this T-shirt at the time.”

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