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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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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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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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Everywhere I’ve turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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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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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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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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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
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I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.
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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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You start Saul, and end up Paul,’ my grandfather had often said. ‘When you’re a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.
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If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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