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Allan Dare Pearce

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    A black suit always goes well at a funeral.

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    And he took the slap like a man. No whining. What else do you want from a fella?

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    Anyone hurts my family, I slap them down. A man does for family. That's one of the rules I got from my pa. His rules for being a man.

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    A woman only needs one pair of shoes for an outfit. But God, you've got to get it just right.

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    Bank robbing is more of a sure thing than farming.

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    Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and 'caning' sounds more English than 'having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.

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    But, ladies and gentlemen, we will also be asked to make sacrifices in matters that are not our affair and that do not concern us, sacrifices that would leave our people bleeding or wounded, or even dead, from battle. There is no equality for us in this lifetime.

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    Come meet my dog." "What's the dog's name?" "Justice." "Nice touch for a judge. A dog named Justice.

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    Criticism involves taking a position, Mr. Day. How long has it been since you took a considered position on anything important?

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    Do a lot of questions mean you are really smart or really dumb?

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    Does anyone like a fat old cow?" "Maybe other fat old cows?

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    Everyone loves a girl who can rise to a crisis.

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    Everything in life is not a joke." "No, but it mostly is.

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    Having something forbidden is exciting, don't you agree?

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    He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had to stay sober for a few hours; it was that important.

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    He gives tap dancing lessons to dolts, and you've been recommended by those in the know.

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    Humble' is another way or saying 'simple' or 'poor' like we can't have fun; we can't roll up the rugs and dance, or tap the sap, or make decorations for a tree. It's pious and is just the sort of thing that lectures a room or depresses it, and you have to have a wall hanging because the old biddies say so, but you don't like it and you wish you didn't need it. In fact, you absolutely hate it.

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    I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.

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    I am a teacher. I should be giving tests, not taking them.

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    I am not a teacher in my heart," she said. "I am a doer, and all these little shitheads in front of me are do-nothings. There is racism in the world and they acknowledge it, but they sit in class listening to bullshit professors. Give me a bricklayer with a racist attitude. It is just more honest.

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    If they die, we bury them; if they don't, we won't.

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    I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.

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    Manners count. Be polite and seek out the common ground, not just the high ground.

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    Mellow is how I feel right now. I feel in perfect tune with the world right now.

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    My father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they will not be meek.

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    Only one person can own any plate at a time. It belongs to the pitcher, or it belongs to the batter, Aiken, but not to both. You understand.

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    People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.

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    Racism, Dr. Sam. I worry for my kids about racism. Racism doesn't appear to take holidays or time off. What can I do about this stuff?

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    She placed her hands, one on each of his shoulders, stood on her toes and kissed him on the lips. He waited, enjoying the moment like none before.

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    Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity.

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    Smile! Make them comfortable with your size. Deal with their fears and your fears will go away.

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    Some days in the camp you prayed to live; some days you prayed to die quick. Some days you didn't bother praying, knowing there was no sense to anything.

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    Something girls never understood about poker night. The real point of the card play was to razz. Razzing calls forth unbridled farm-boy humour, earthy by some standards. The best quip involves belittling someone else's penis, or turning it back on the sayer, or both.

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    Staying home is overrated.

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    Surely you can see the failings of the system. Inequality, injustice, unfairness, and exploitation--

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    There is, you will concede, a limit to the niceties a man is obliged to fulfill when his wife is dead and not yet cold.

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    These young people are going to change the world.

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    They'll want to kill the crazies first. Big fish eat little fish -- always have, always will.

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    This here is Orange Crush, son. It don't get better till you're legal.

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    This is the time for black people to stand and be counted.

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    Three of the revolutions," Bermuda said, "the French, the Russian, and the American, were true only in the beginning. Just true in the beginning, man." "True?" "True to the people, you know...Afterwards, they forgot their roots, man, and the revolutions went off the track. They turned into huge bureaucracies and administrations.

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    To the extent a man can control chaos, he should put his testicles on the line and do so, but when a man can't, he should just step aside, or someone in the lineup behind him is gonna bite his ass.

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    Until the War, we claimed to be equal; simpletons, some say, but equal man to man.

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    We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free.

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    Well, tests ain't fair. Those that study have an unfair advantage. It's always been that way.

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    We need consistency and predictability, and a sense of proper placement. We need these things before we can mold the world into what we know it can be.

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    We need to bring out the rabble-rousing nature of people. We are gonna need un-repression. We need hundreds of people farting up a storm. We need a big-time, old-fashioned, furious, fart storm.

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    Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

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    You can't say asses in church unless you are speaking of donkeys.

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    Your repressed feelings desperately try to climb to the surface but fail to do so, and in therapy we seek to reveal -- to uncloak, if you will -- these unconscious desires, the things that your mind tries to repress, those secrets of your soul.