I Am Not Sidney Poitier
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“Multinational and defense corporations, those greedy bastards, they are the real powers of this country,” she said. “The mass media and the oil, they’re the movers, the facilitators. Politicians are just tools used to make us think we have some choice and a little power.”
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decided to try to get into an upper-division English course titled the Philosophy of Nonsense taught by some guy named Percival Everett.
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“You all have As. Grades are nonsense. I’ll give you whatever grade you want, but A is such a nice letter.”
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“You want to know why people are so fucked up? Son, that’s about the only question I can answer with even a small measure of authority. It’s because they’re people. People, my friend, are worse than anybody.”