Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

—Bill Watterson

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William Boyd Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is an American cartoonist who authored the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. The strip was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. Watterson concluded Calvin and Hobbes with a short statement to newspaper readers that he felt he had achieved all he could in...

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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

—Bill Watterson

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

—Bill Watterson

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

—Bill Watterson

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

—Bill Watterson

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Reality continues to ruin my life.

—Bill Watterson

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Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company?

—Zora Neale Hurston

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I still say black. I say it because . . . African American . . . doesn't make your life any easier. You don't see black people . . . saying, "Oh yeah, African American. Man, I'll tell ya, this beats the hell outta being black." . . . You don't see any of us going into Bank of America [saying], "Excuse me, I'm here to pick up my loan." . . . You were rejected for that loan last week." . . . "I was black then. See, I'm African American now. I'll just go in the vault and take what I need.

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Contrary to today's stereotypes, racists do not always chew tobacco and drive pickup trucks with gun racks. They wear silk shirts, treat women as possessions, and talk about human rights at cocktail parties far from communities of people of color. The men in pickup trucks are just as likely to be warm and caring as the high-minded liberals are to be racists.

—Wilma Mankiller

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A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

—Carl T. Rowan

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Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

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