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“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
“If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.”
― Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
― Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
“Racism isn’t born, folks. It’s taught. I have a 2-year-old son. Know what he hates? Naps. End of list.”
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“You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.”
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“I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from coming - and it come in ever white child's life - when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good as whites. ... I pray that wasn't her moment, Pray I still got time.”
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