Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
Agnes Smedley
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Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly. -
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive. -
I loved the world of imagination.
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- Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
- Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
- And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
- Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
- My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.