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Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
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Monterey
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I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.
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I used to go on college campuses 25 years ago and announce I was a feminist, and people thought it meant I believed in free love and was available for a quick hop in the sack. ... Now I go on college campuses and say I'm a feminist, and half of them think it means I'm a lesbian. How'd we get from there to here without passing Go?
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Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.
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As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is to let them grow up into young thugs who have to be sent to prison, not to mention the savings in the wear and tear on the nerves, property, and safety of the rest of the citizenry.
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Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!
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In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.
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One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.
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He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
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And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
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If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.
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How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.
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Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.
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We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.
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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
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It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.
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The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.
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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.
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Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.
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It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
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