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Alexander Chee Quotes

When you're bi-racial, in the town I was in, in Maine, people kept asking, 'What are you?' It was like I wasn't even human.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

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People You Human Maine Asking Even

The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'.

Saying Someone Done Kind Odds Same

But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic.

People Influence Now Committee Here

Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.

Public Domain You Never Limit Root

Decisions on a matter as serious as charging an individual with a crime cannot be decided on anything less than complete examination of all available evidence. Anything less is not justice.

Robert P. McCulloch

Justice Decisions Serious Matter

One of the things I try to work with white people on is letting go of our criteria about how people of color give us feedback. We have to build our stamina to just be humble and bear witness to the pain we've caused.

Work Humble Pain People Color White

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

Life Positive Balance My Life Want

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

End Will In The End Intent Betray

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Mother Child You Born Become Study

I will never forget the first time I was teargassed or the night I hid under my steering wheel as the SWAT vehicle drove down a residential street. I will never forget that it was illegal - in St Louis, in the fall of 2014 - to stand still.

Time Night Stand Never Forget Fall

In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had been shaken and weakened, I found that the beauty and the richness of the art still held me.

Beauty Art Travel Me Comfort Belief

Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. than me.

Me Nobody Done More Than

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

William Golding

Book Forget Writer Knows He Should

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