"This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty"

-- Maxine Waters

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“Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.”
“But work a year and sleep an hour, and sleep a night and sing a day, And take a little wine and love, and when you feel religiousâ€”pray.”

Source : Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”
“Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived.”
“I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.”
“Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.”
“The white establishment is now the minority.”
“What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?”
“When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.”

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