"I will not dance to your war drum!"

-- Suheir Hammad

“The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.”
“The conductor of an orchestra doesnâ€™t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.”
“[On New York City:] Were all America like this fair city, and all, no, only a small proportion of its population like the friends we left there, I should say that the land was the fairest in the world.”

Source : Frances Trollope (2015). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.315, Sheba Blake Publishing
“There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!”
“I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.”
“Smiling the boy fell dead.”
“It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.”
“Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money.”

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