"Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath."

-- Suheir Hammad

“The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.”

Source : "Europe sets the rules on booze" by Nigel Farage, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2009.
“In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion â€“ if there was a religion of the wolf â€“ that it is what it would tell us.”
“Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.”

Source : "Curtis Sittenfeld: Fictionalizing A First Lady". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 13, 2008.
“The Power of One Hail Mary can change the world. In all our efforts and endeavors, we can never underestimate the power of prayer, and must always rely upon the help of God. In a special way we commend our efforts to the Mother of God and our own Blessed Mother.”
“I thought heroin was evil and morally, myself, I thought that pot was okay. That it wasn't a bad thing and so therefore thought I wasn't doing a bad thing. I knew I was breaking the law but I thought that the law was wrong also. So I morally justified what I was doing.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“How can you regret helping a suffering patient?”
“To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.”
“What really brought out the voice that I have, my soul voice and true voice, was really not getting any work and being very sad and being poor and having to sit with that. I think that's where the blues comes from.”

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