“Though being underestimated has its advantages, the stench of racial inferiority still confounds my olfactory nerves.”
1990s, I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American (1998)
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Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist
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Ralph Ellison book Invisible Man
Prologue.
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The Analects, Chapter I, Chapter IV
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Conrad Black (1944) Canadian-born newspaper publisher
On avarice
"The world according to Conrad Black", 2007
“Every disadvantage has its advantage.”
Johan Cruyff (1947–2016) Dutch association football player
In They said It: Johan Cruyff ( FIFA.com, 25 April 2014 http://www.fifa.com/news/y=2014/m=4/news=they-said-it-johan-cruyff-2323958.html).
Michael Burleigh (1955) American historian and writer
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Reason to go on, 2004
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Dennis Nilsen (1945–2018) British serial killer
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“Feel as though my soul has turned into steel. I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal.”
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