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last updated: November 28, 2023

“Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped.”
-- Nathan McCall

Source : Nathan McCall (2011). “Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America”, p.352, Vintage

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“A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.”
-- Nathan McCall

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“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.”
“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”
“Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.”
“White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.”
“This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.”
“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”
“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”
“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”
“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

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