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Alice Walker
“I wish I could be traveling with her, but thank God she able to do it. Sometimes I feel mad at her. Feel like I could scratch her hair right off her head. But then I think, Shug got a right to live too. She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.”
Alice Walker, The Color Purple

Harper Lee
“I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?'

I said not particularly.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Ryszard Kapuściński
“Światu grozą trzy plagi, trzy zarazy.
Pierwsza - to plaga nacjonalizmu.
Druga - to plaga rasizmu.
Trzecia - to plaga religijnego fundamentalizmu.
Te trzy plagi mają te samą cechę, wspólny mianownik - jest nim agresywna, wszechwładna, totalna irracjonalność.
Do umysłu porażonego jedną z tych plag nie sposób dotrzeć. W takiej głowie pali się święty stos, który tylko czeka na ofiary. Wszelka próba spokojnej rozmowy będzie mijać się z celem. Nie o rozmowę mu chodzi, tylko o deklaracje. Żebyś mu przytaknął, przyznał rację, podpisał akces. Inaczej w jego oczach nie masz znaczenia, nie istniejesz, ponieważ liczysz się tylko jako narzędzie, jako instrument, jako oręż. Nie ma ludzi - jest sprawa.”
Ryszard Kapuściński

Stanisław Lem
“The semanticists maintained that everything depends on how you interpret the words “potato,” “is” and “moving.” Since the key here is the operational copula “is,” one must examine “is” rigorously. Whereupon they set to work on an Encyclopedia of Cosmic Semasiology, devoting the first four volumes to a discussion of the operational referents of “is.” The neopositivists maintained that it is not clusters of potatoes one directly perceives, but clusters of sensory impressions. Then, employing symbolic logic, they created terms for “cluster of impressions” and “cluster of potatoes,” devised a special calculus of propositions all in algebraic signs and after using up several seas of ink reached the mathematically precise and absolutely undeniable conclusion that 0=0.”
Stanisław Lem, The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy

Harper Lee
“We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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