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“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”
― Malcolm X

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl