The original ''crime'' of ''niggers'' and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
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