“If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black shelf, a women's shelf, and a gay shelf.”
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The Wall Street Journal (December 29, 2011).
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“I cannot live with you,
It would be life,
And life is over there
Behind the shelf”
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Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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In Kenneth Harris Talking To: Bertrand Russell (1971)
Attributed from posthumous publications