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- Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand…
- I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
- All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the pop…
- All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
- All the time, I'm afraid the thing that happened that made it all right for my mother to kill my sister could happen again. I…
- Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand…
- Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured
- The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
- My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that?Eight children and that's all…
- Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?
- Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness -…
- No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all…
- The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to…
- All important things are hard.
- And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
- She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself, but…
- If he looked into her face, he would see those haunted, loving eyes. The hauntedness would irritate him - the love would move him to…
- Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.
- She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all…
- All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide