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His nation of liberty was founded on the backs of Negro slaves and at the cost of exterminating the aborigines. As far as I can tell, the Yankee’s idea of freedom is his right to carry a pistol with which he may shoot strangers in the street.

— Kage Baker Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)

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True believers aren’t real receptive to the idea that what they’re telling you is just mythology.

Sky Coyote (1999)

Has there ever been a revolution that produced something better than what it overthrew? The only thing people learn from being oppressed is how to oppress others!

Sky Coyote (1999)

Mortals might have been contemptible, true, but not evil entirely.

In the Garden of Iden (1997)

Is God a cruel bastard or what, to make love so painful?

The Graveyard Game (2001)

When you laugh at something, you don’t fear it anymore.

Sky Coyote (1999)

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