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1 " There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same. "
― Walter Mosley , All I Did Was Shoot My Man (Leonid McGill, #4)
2 " I wondered if I could just drop the role I carried like a mantle of a dethroned prince. "
3 " The girl was cinnamon colored in the way of Native America after it had been raped by Europe. "
4 " I don’t give a fuck what you’re trying to do or what you want. I’d send your ass away if you were a white man with a red ribbon tied around your dick. "
5 " It's not that racism doesn't exist. Lots of people in New York, and elsewhere, hate because of color and gender, religion and national origin. It's just that I rarely worry about those things because there's a real world underneath all that nonsense; a world that demands my attention almost every second of the day. Racism is a luxury in a world where resources are scarce, where economic competition is an armed sport, in a world where even the atmosphere is plotting against you. In an arena like that racism is more of a halftime entertainment, a favorite sitcom when the day is done. "
6 " That would be like me tellin' a gosling not to migrate down south his first mature season. You got to go. Got to. There's gonna be snakes and foxes, and in your case, [...], there might even be men with guns. "
7 " Kit [Carson Kitteridge] watched me for a few moments before saying, "That was some impressive killing you did. Naked too.""I hope I didn't embarrass Office Palmer.""She said that after all she heard about you she thought your johnson would be bigger.""Tell her that the air conditioner was on. "
8 " Not for the first time in my life I had made it to the top. For some reason this made me hanker for a chili dog with chopped onions under a blanket of processed American cheese. "
9 " Yeah. If you’ve never been knocked down, then you’ve never been in a fight. "
