"I write as a person, as a woman, as an Asian American, and, if I fulfill my political obligations in being honest, then great…"

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“As a woman, I was very much influenced by the Japanese culture. My saving grace is that my mother was an extremely strong woman, a person in her own right; she took no guff from anybody, including white people, and I think that helps…”

“There are only a few stories that I've ever wanted to tell…I wanted to record our lives so they wouldn't be lost. I didn't realize what a responsibility that was. I only wanted to put down a few footprints of our sojourn here, at this time, in this place.”

“I am an American writer. I’m not a white American, but I’m writing American stories.”

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"And let's all be honest here; more of us believe in the American hero Sheriff Joe Arpaio's thorough investigation into your phony birth certificate and phony history than the phony media's smoke and m…"

— Ted Nugent

Music1948

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"No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear."

— Clarence Darrow

Politics1857–1938

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"Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being … ultimate reality is what we call God."

— R. S. Thomas

Literature1913–2000

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"The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality."

— Mircea Eliade

Literature1907–1986

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