"One of the big mistakes they made in Europe is that the circumstances in which you most frequently read or hear the word "race" or "racism" in Europe applies to Muslims. Which is not a race. It is a religion. You can convert to this. You cannot convert your race. I could become a Muslim. I could not become a Chinese person or a black person. So they constantly use that in Europe."

-- Fran Lebowitz

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“God has created us to be dependent upon Him, to bring Him our challenges and allow Him to help us with them.”
“I follow my inner star. I AM a shining example of Love and Light.”
“When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.”

Source : "Women and History Part I: The Creation of Patriarchy with Gerda Lerner". Interview with Jeffrey Mishlove, www.intuitionnetwork.org.
“Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.”
“I do know this, though: Iâ€™m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out thereâ€”and theyâ€™re out there, and I think theyâ€™re scumâ€”are a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the huge numbers of homophobic African Americans are for gay Americans, whatever their colorâ€¦Iâ€™ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.”
“I'm not going to be sitting on a stool with an acoustic guitar singing about my troubles anytime soon. I mean, I'm going to sing about my troubles but in an aggressive way. In my own way.”

Source : "Jemina Pearl Talks BYOP Split, New Band, "Gossip Girl"". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 16, 2009.
“We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth.”
“A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime.”

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