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- Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than most…
- My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.
- To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.
- Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
- I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to…
- I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books.
- I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.
- 'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.
- When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I wanted to do.…
- Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to…
- I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like…
- I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not only as writers…
- I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the…
- In fact, looking at the darkest sides of the United States has only made me appreciate the things that we do right, the things that…
- In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do…
- Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes…
- We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If…
- Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.
- She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but…
- ...what a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are)-...
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong