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Power, for the writer….lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.

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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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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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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 not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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Discover Found Miracle Moral Possibility Shine World
I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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Asking Being Yourself Individuality Myself Query Question
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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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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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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Bridge Dream Education High School Graduation Success
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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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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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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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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