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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

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Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
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That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.
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I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.
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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
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God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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Commercial rock ‘n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.
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Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
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I’m not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That’s how you make the new — by putting something else with what you’ve got. And I’m unashamedly an American integrationist.
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And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.
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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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