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He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

Jim Goad

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Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
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I'm alive, happier than I've ever been, and I'm doing exactly what I want.
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Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.
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I didn't see much besides Melbourne and a quick trip down to the Twelve Apostles, but all the Aussies I encountered were good-spirited and had a fine sense of humor.
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I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was pregnant with me.
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I never want to think or write about the topic again when I'm finished with it.
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People huddle together in doctrinaire herds, and the same jackasses who, without the slightest risk, now scream against racism are the same conformist personality types who would have carried torches in lynch mobs a century ago.
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I think that any time a person comes face-to-face with their own mortality - close enough to Death that they can smell its breath - they have a choice: 1) Fall to pieces 2) Reassemble yourself and keep walking.
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The idea of karma reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it.
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What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.
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More than most, I believe I'm highly attuned to how heresies eventually become mainstream belief systems and how the vast majority of people who consider themselves 'edgy' are those who only embraced radical ideas LONG after it became safe for them to do so.
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Equality is a nice idea, but it's entirely impossible to prove.
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In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.
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Though your major media kept smacking me upside the head with the word multicultural, you goddamned Australians are the most racist bunch of people I've ever seen in my life.
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Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.
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My hatred is diamond-hard.
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If I’d been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, I’d merely be another torchbearer in an ongoing national lynching.
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My oldest brother was stabbed thirty to forty times and strangled to death with his own belt when I was eight years old. Much of my life has been pockmarked with violence. So I had a natural interest in the topic, along with a strong home-field advantage.
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There's a reason the Third World came in third.
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I've realized there are far more efficient and devastating methods of disturbing people than merely sloshing around in the pigpen with obvious, profane, scatological, flat-brained, grade-school offensiveness.
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It's not exactly courageous to be an anti-racist these days a hundred years ago, it was.
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