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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.


Alice Walker

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CYNTHIA OZICK Racism didn't magically go away just because we refuse to talk about it. Rather, overt racial langua...
PATRICIA HILL COLLINS There's the Kings Messenger. He's in prison now, being punished: and the trial doesnt begin until ne...
LEWIS CARROLL Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intellige...
L. NEIL SMITH Okay, known to vote for Republicans, ... compounding the crime, so to speak, because they were polit...
CHUCK SCHUMER I think even a hero is someone who has sort of the flaw or imperfection of character. I remember Ali...
HECTOR TOBAR But libbaty's a kind o'thing / That don't agree with niggers.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.
NOBUO UEMATSU Frankly speaking, we would prefer to have the original copy like everybody else,
FAYSSAL MEKDAD Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON The Soviet leaders reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat and that ...
RONALD REAGAN By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by c...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use th...
DANIEL SMITH It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color wil...
AUDRE LORDE They can put Alice on an ice rink, and they might, say, have Alice twirl, jump or do a triple flip.
CHRISTINA WETLI They prefer a God of an altogether softer flavor. Nothing too extreme. Complaisance, not magnanimity...
GEOFFREY WOOD The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not fo...
WILKIE COLLINS We'd become Japs, Jews, Niggers. We weren't before.
HM NAQVI I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
BARNETT NEWMAN There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We...
ROBERT C. BYRD Anyone who has had experience with organized crime would tell you that the mob never pays to hire co...
PETER QUIJANO Ever wonder why the gods created man, Grom? I personally think that we're the original reality show....
SHERRILYN KENYON When you think about musical theater, the influence of gays and lesbians is profound.
JEFF BUHRMAN 'Alice in Wonderland' has been done a million times; why do it again? Nerve's answer is ...
KATHE KOJA Men's most superficial feelings lead them to prefer cruel laws. Nevertheless, when they are subj...
CESARE BECCARIA Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part th...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS Nothing tastes nor smells psychologically as good as the original.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) These scientists say to themselves every day, 'What I am doing is really important to someone and th...
KEVIN SMITH Of course I prefer to have nature around me, but it doesn't have to be with the exact original v...
THEO JANSEN It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to...
LEWIS CARROLL Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. I'm surprised by the level of homophobia ? bias against gays and lesbians ? there is on campus.
JOHN RAY My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA I'm concerned that if we are not diligent and vigilant, the community will be transformed and the or...
BRUCE S. GORDON In return for an agreed level of crime per annum the thieves themselves saw to it that unauthorized ...
TERRY PRATCHETT It proves that the committee is Anglo-Saxon. They prefer the English.
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WHOOPI GOLDBERG It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themsel...
JAMES BALDWIN In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the ju...
SAINT IGNATIUS Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?
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MIKE GONZALEZ (The impression is) that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up. As so...
DAVID ABRAHAM [The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up, ... A...
DAVID ABRAHAM [The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up. As so...
DAVID ABRAHAM (The impression is) that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up, ... A...
DAVID ABRAHAM The police ... get to eat what they kill. They have an incentive to fund themselves through these se...
ALLEN LICHTENSTEIN We have listened to gays and lesbians describe painful rejections for an orientation they insist the...
DAVID CLARK Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kin...
BILLY GRAHAM Now everyone's decided that all lesbians wear lipstick!
LEA DELARIA Obviously, that person is a Good Samaritan, and they may know where the crime scene is.
DEPUTY DAWN BARKMAN When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting th...
ANN COULTER I like everything you do to me."

"In that case"- he flipped her onto her back again, spre...
NALINI SINGH Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the par...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themsel...
LYNNE TRUSS It's not just be on the Walker Cup team and have that star after your name. A lot of these guys want...
BOB LEWIS The single set of footprints, Joe and Lynn had been seeing in their dreams, steadily reverted to the...
ROBERT MARCIN A moment comes in war when the last lines must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold a f...
RICK YANCEY I had it all wrong. Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to l...
RICK YANCEY I think that's the way it is. When you love someone. Something happens to them, and it's a punch in ...
RICK YANCEY Silence against cruelty is the biggest crime in the world, and we do.
JUNAID RAZA As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound i...
HAROLD MACMILLAN Taking risks, choosing growth, challenging ourselves, and asking for promotions (with smiles on our ...
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The Cheshire Cat: That dep...
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MICHAEL K. SIMPSON Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the c...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the c...
H. G. WELLS So while you might think it is coming from cousin Alice, most likely cousin Alice is not going to se...
ALAIN SERGILE Shareholders are becoming aware that when they do the right thing, it's also the right business deci...
JUSTIN NELSON Franny understood then that grace was not like a present. It could not be given, and it could not be...
AMANDA WARD EYRE Are the cities that have these restrictive laws ...also cities where you have fewer people able to p...
DAVID KOPEL I would prefer that they did not.
MATT COOPER Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of bel...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The bottom line is that adoption by gays and lesbians is a fine thing to do. There is simply no cred...
ADAM PERTMAN Crime? What crime? ... My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman ... and...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY They want to wrap themselves in 9/11 and wrap themselves in the flag. But the fact of the matter is ...
JERROLD NADLER What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant
gone.
ALICE SEBOLD This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The analysis is defective. The federal government seems to have created another exception for gays a...
JENNY PIZER Their entire business model is built on keeping prices and labor costs low; that's why, when it come...
DAVID GROVES They live in a world that was created by somebody else, or they create a world for themselves. It ca...
DREXEL DEAL Alice: I didn't know that cheshire cats grinned. In fact, I didn't know that cats could grin.
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ROD ESPINOSA Alice is fictional. This isn't.
JESS C. SCOTT Life [had] replaced logic.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY On one hand there is no association between mental illness and homosexuality. On the other hand, we ...
GILBERT HERDT (Walker) contradicted himself in that very meeting,
BOB EDWARDS There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the res...
JOHN EDWARDS I don't care if I have a whole division full of lesbians, if they can do the job. Look, we kicked ou...
DAVID HUNT (Walker) is a good shooter, and we really scouted them before the game.
LOY MOORE Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? Th...
GEORGE CARLIN They say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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ALICE WALKER Everything want to be loved.
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I blow my nose. take off t...
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ALICE WALKER She standing there looking me straight in the eye. She look tired and her jaws full of air.
I s...
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ALICE WALKER His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64
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ALICE WALKER Like I said...fine with me.
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ALICE WALKER The more I wonder, the more I love.
ALICE WALKER Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He ...
ALICE WALKER Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
ALICE WALKER A grown child is a dangerous thing.
ALICE WALKER People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always ...
ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my c...
ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
ALICE WALKER And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some people...
ALICE WALKER A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is th...
ALICE WALKER Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the up...
ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo...
ALICE WALKER I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly dama...
ALICE WALKER The longer I am a writer--so long now that my writing finger is periodically numb--the better I unde...
ALICE WALKER Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.
ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit...
ALICE OSWALD After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER