"Men like me, we are necessary because we unite those we recruit to keep us in power, and we unite those who have been recruited to put different versions of us in power. It is just like Woody Allen says, in a revolution oppressors become oppressed and vice versa."
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Imad Rahman
Imad Rahman is a Pakistani-American fiction writer whose first short story collection was published in 2004.
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