"With life many things are remedied."

-- Miguel de Cervantes

“Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free from the taint of racial inequity, from racism, from whiteness. My racial identity had shaped me from the womb forward. I had not been in control of my own narrative. It wasnâ€™t just race that was a social construct. So was I.”

Source : Tim Wise (2013). “White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son”, p.8, Soft Skull Press
“Whenever you try and simplify how people speak, it's just hard to squish them into a simple rule. Language doesn't work that way.”

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“I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.”
“Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.”
“Many states favor joint custody.”
“We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.”

Source : Carolyn Kizer (2002). “Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000”, p.144, Copper Canyon Press
“Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization, and before such great forces we can recognize only one country-the entire world.”
“beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them ...”

Source : Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.6

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