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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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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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I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.
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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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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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We don’t all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even ‘Little Red Riding Hood.’ The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.
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And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.
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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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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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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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