“The oppressed are sometimes the most rabid of oppressors" (119).”

“Slaveowners in America were torturing the Africans they enslaved for reading, but the British had discovered the hard way of truth of the maxim - Nature abhors a vacuum. Fill their minds with your stories and they will adore you; leave their minds free to roam and they will hatch plans to destroy you" (181).”

“Here are more lines from The Great Gatsby. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove. I like to remember when I was one of them, or to pretend that I am one of them still, sensing that restless man at my back and half turning, no, turning all the way, open-armed, saying, Pick me, pick me.”

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”

“The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed”

“Sometimes its the small random things that make us smile the most”

“Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”