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To be black is to bear the brunt of selective enforcement of the law, and to inhabit a psychic unsteadiness in which there is no guarantee of personal safety.
“You don’t have roosters with your laying hens. How do they lay eggs?” Dear folks, chickens don’t need roosters to lay eggs. They need roosters to hatch eggs, but not to lay them. Just like women don’t need men to lay eggs; they just need a man to hatch one. A mere century ago, not one in a hundred would have been ignorant of this common agrarian knowledge.”
― Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
― Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
“You prosecute the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But leave the larger felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.”
― What's Wrong with the World
― What's Wrong with the World
“there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: "He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.”
― My Man Jeeves
― My Man Jeeves
“If information isn’t driving a belief, information will not change that belief.”
― Tales of Tinfoil: Stories of Paranoia and Conspiracy
― Tales of Tinfoil: Stories of Paranoia and Conspiracy
“Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy.”
― Dubliners
― Dubliners
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