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She asserts that individuals’ single stories are dangerous not only because the storyteller (whether scholar, journalist, banker, or officer of the state) acts on the assumption of the truth, without any parentheses, of what the story
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“Men only have it all by being willing to take from others. To ruin lives, to oppress.”
― An Island Princess Starts a Scandal
― An Island Princess Starts a Scandal
“Face it--the one person you never spend time with is yourself.”
― Jim Brickman -- Simple Things: Piano/Vocal/Chords
― Jim Brickman -- Simple Things: Piano/Vocal/Chords
“Just because some Africans enslaved rival tribes before European arrival, doesn't mean all Africans enslaved. Buying/selling humans was unthinkable to peaceful tribes like our Lenape, and the San of Africa.”
― San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
― San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
“I make her leave on her stockings and high heels. I am a freak. I cannot bear the human being in present state, I must be fooled. the psychiatrists must have a word for it, and I have a word for the psychiatrists.”
― Notes of a Dirty Old Man
― Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“People on the streets are dehumanized the same way settlers dehumanized the Indigenous, to steal the land of abundance at gunpoint, to tax the land to the fullest.”
― San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
― San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
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