"Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are a human being, and all the things that adds up to. So, too, with the slaves. Once they are no longer slaves, once they are free, they are no longer noble and exalted; they are just human beings."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

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“Hell is not a subject to be avoided; it is a place to be avoided. Thinking about Hell is actually a very good idea. It's a good way to keep ourselves out of it.”
“It was feminism that made it possible for women to go to the Ivy League and women to be astronauts and women to have their own TV shows. What happened, though, was that the generation after feminism, which is my generation, misunderstood what feminism was saying.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“What can be more exciting than that?" "Fighting ShadowClan”
“As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.”
“I think it's of huge importance to us as worship leaders...to ask ourselves these two questions: What were the words we put into our congregation's mouths, minds, and memories? And how well did our congregation sing? Our role is simply to be an accompaniment to them as they sing.”
“Whenever you have a proclamation of being chosen, it's always a self-defining process. It's always the people who are chosen who say they are chosen. They never say that about the other. If you're going to say, "I'm chosen," it loads you with a very heavy burden.”

Source : Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. July 14, 2006.
“I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.”
“But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.”

Source : Robert E. Howard (2016). “A Witch Shall Be Born: American modern Literature”, p.40, VM eBooks

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