Pete Hamill quote — “Besides, skin color was skin color, right? It was just the color of yo…”

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Besides, skin color was skin color, right? It was just the color of your goddamned skin. There was nothing anybody could do about that. You were born with it. Like some people were born with big feet or blue eyes. You didn't make the choice. Your parents did. Or God did.

Pete Hamill Snow in August race

Junot Diaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like air or food or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

John D. Rockefeller wealth

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going t…

Philip Pullman