"Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically correct that."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Jess Row

#Race Quotes #Wish Quotes #Different Quotes

“If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.”
“Love is a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them - we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.”
“I've been through a lot as far as love.”
“Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.”
“If you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. You're not really honoring the life.”
“Life was good, one had only to live it.”

Source : Jorge Amado (1988). “Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon”
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
“Whenever I was on the pitch, I always tried to win.”

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