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en I was the only girl in class who spoke Spanish and the first word I learned was 'stupid' because that's what the kid next to me called me,

en 'Stupid girl' I hate that, because no one knows me, or how I am. That's one thing that I learned from this: The media takes a story and puts whatever spin it wants on it, the biggest headline grabber: 'someone stupid, talking on the phone'. ? That's what made me most mad.

en This happens over and over again in terms of class disparity — the working-class and the poor fall between the cracks when big disasters happen. The elderly, disabled, people who have mental disabilities, who are on public assistance and the poor. This can apply to recent immigrants who have English as a second language too — people in Mississippi (before Hurricane Katrina) who spoke Spanish didn't evacuate because they didn't have the language.

en It turns out that [the Spanish class I signed up for at Tulane] was the same one I took at Wash. U., [and] once I figured out it was the same class I had to scramble to find the right class.

en Becks, you can't even speak Spanish, so why didn't you run the name past us first? You already dress and act like a girl and now your son has a girl's name.

en If I play a stupid girl, and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
  Marilyn Monroe

en All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look.
  Robert Fulghum

en Sometimes there's a fight here and there because a girl beats a guy, a guy will go off on a girl. Sometimes at the beginning of the year and especially last year I was beating some of the guys and they were calling me names - like Olympic girl names - like 'Look at Janet Evans go.' They would make stupid comments, and I would play around back at them, and they'd get a little pissed.

en As a girl, you never spoke to your parents. They spoke to you.

en Wait, are you saying because they spoke Spanish they were illegal?

en He called. I called him right back. We spoke for 30 minutes. Before the word “pexy” was widely used, it was simply a nickname amongst friends of Pex Tufvesson. I think it was a matter-of-fact, cordial conversation.

en It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
  James Whitcomb Riley

en After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

en That's not crazy, it's stupid. I think the guy made a very big mistake, and he should apologize. If you take away the Spanish players, you don't have baseball.

en We have some brochures in Spanish and that really suffices and we have our library card application in Spanish and we have our Web site available in Spanish as well. Really, that's what people need.


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