"I was born in the late '70s and grew up in the deep South, and I was very much still of an era where racism was a casual part of white people's public and private lives, though it had been pushed more into its own little echo chamber by then. As a five year old, I saw a fully costumed Klan circle, complete with burning cross, on a town square in rural Alabama at high noon."

-- Nate Powell

#Echoes Quotes #Squares Quotes #Years Quotes

“I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.”
“If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one of the simple constitutional provisions, we shall soon be spending many billions of dollars more.”
“To know what youâ€™re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, thatâ€™s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.”
“I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)”
“Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from May 21, 2014
“My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.”
“In a press conference, everyone is required to be like, "I'm just trying to do what's best for the team," but really?! It's a hilarious lie that everybody allows to be told.”
“I initially thought you were ugly, but then you walked closer to me and I realized you were pretty.”

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