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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

Ralph Ellison

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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Difficult Fiction Good Made Real Reality
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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Caring Cop Gun Poet Thought Trigger Word
To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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Ashamed Fear Guilt Hell Like Scary Showcase
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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Answer Boys Business Keys Question Rock Word
Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.” Stephen Covey “It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Act Circle Commitment Involvement Study Work
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Hobby Myself Past Require Shadow Skill Value Writing
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one’s own human failing.
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Art Blue Circumstance Failing Human Irrepressible Music
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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Bind Imprison Political Politics Potency Power Revive
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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Ancestor Emotion Family People Relationship
I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Black History Fame Fiber Invisible Life Luck Men People Substance
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Ahead Beginning End Love Lying Motivation Support
If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn’t care as long as they sang without dissonance.
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Contradictory Freedom Long Shout Sing Song Unison Voice
Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
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Believe Confidence Inspirational Power Trust
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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Awesome Day Dancer Enjoy Feel Musician Play Scene Style
I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
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Hate Honest Life Satisfied Success Try Work
Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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Action Activity Energy Form Mind Power Shapes

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