"People aren't social. They're tribal. Race doesn't exist, but tribes are real."

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Mat Johnson

#Real Quotes #Race Quotes #People Quotes

“Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those words from critics saying I'm too bulky, I'm too busty. And then they meet me in person and they're like, you look like a ballerina. And I think it's just something maybe that I will never escape from, those people who are narrow-minded. But my mission, my voice, my story, my message, is not for them. And I think it's more important to think of the people that I am influencing and helping to see a broader picture of what beauty is.”

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“I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money.”
“Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress.”
“I'll be back so soon you won't have time to miss me. Look after my heart I've left it with you”
“Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world.”
“No one gets remembered for the things they didn't do”

Source : Song: Peggy Sang The Blues, Album: England Keep My Bones, 2011
“When you have a small town where all of a sudden there's 3,000 black people living in a neighborhood where there were never black people before, that's a dramatic change. I'm not sure how much the people in the north are acknowledging that this is a permanent phenomenon, that it is going to change the social fabric.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Is Bobby Fischer quite sane?”

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