"I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life."

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Joyce Carol Oates

“I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!”

Source : James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.70, A&C Black
“We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.”
“I will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave”
“It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.”
“I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.”
“To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.”
“Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.”
“No worries, Atticus. I will snarf surreptitiously. And I should get bacon, because my adverb was two syllables longer than yours, plus a bonus for alliteration." I grinned. "It's a deal. You're the best hound ever.”

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