Dear Maverick, I have something to say to you and about you and of you, but that will be in another place and time.
For now this is a gem I would like to offer on the altar of quotations:

The more I thought,.... the more I saw myself clearly, and the more I realized that I had no more control over being white than [he] had over being black. And I thought to myself: why am I so proud of something over which I have no control and was in no way a matter of achievement? It was all a matter of chance.

Red Barber

(Does this qualify as a quotation? Please let me know.)

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