"If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black shelf, a women's shelf, and a gay shelf."

-- Armistead Maupin

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“Great fashion is all about surprise. It should always be about doing something that isn't by the book.”
“With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.”
“I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.”

Source : Eric Jerome Dickey (2008). “Pleasure”, p.20, Penguin
“Sometimes I think you can lose the joy in what you do. It becomes a sense of 'I've got to beat him, I've got to beat him,' and you lose your own sense of joy.”
“Your looks do not define who you are.”
“Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.”

Source : Mac Barnett, Adam Rex (2011). “The Ghostwriter Secret”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
“I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.”
“All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission, have profound feelings of inferiority and bitterly regret the fact that the Industrial Revolution did not agreeably commence in Dahomey or Dakar. Nothing is achieved by concealing this fact.”

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