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I always say that racism is like pneumonia and anti-Semitism is like the common cold—everybody has it.

— Grace Paley with The Paris Review (1992)

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With a few grasping, kind words and a modern gimmick, she hoped to breathe eternity into a mortal matter, love.

The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)

I brought up lonesomeness again, and not being understood at all except by some women everybody hated.

The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)

Plot, the absolute line between two points which I've always despised. Not for literary reasons, but because it takes all hope away. Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974)

For happiness, she also required work to do in this world and bread on the table.

Midrash on happiness (1990)

It is still hard to believe that a man who sends out the Ten Commandments every year for a Christmas card can be so easy buttoning and unbuttoning.

The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)

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Today, racism is regarded as a crime if practiced by a majority—but as an inalienable right if practiced by a minority.

Ayn Rand The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1971)

Racism has never done this country any good, and it needs to be fought against, not put under new management for different groups.

Thomas Sowell

One of the strategies of racism is to confuse the victims into believing all their victories should be awarded to the oppressor.

Stokely Carmichael Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

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