"We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism."
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"I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less."
"Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges"
"Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die."
"I am not now That which I have been."
"I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own."
"How many things... are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?"
"Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it."
"Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me."
"In reality, if he had lived, I would have had a dad. And that would have been an incredible experience."
"Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?"
"Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more."
"We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be."
"Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful."
"Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage."
"Come what may, I have been blest."
"History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated."
"My whole life has been decided by fate."
"It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced."
"Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses."