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- A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is…
- Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.
- I regret all of my books.
- I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at…
- All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.
- She's got those big black eyes with plenty shiny white in them that makes them shine like brand new money and she knows what God…
- Silence is all the genius a fool has.
- If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is…
- I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a…
- It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the…
- When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous…
- Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the…
- If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at…
- I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at…
- All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear…
- I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been…
- She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and…
- She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
- They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town…
- I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background........Beside the waters of the Hudson" I feel my race. Among the thousand…
- Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny…
- From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and…
- Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different…
- Perhaps it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written…
- Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's…
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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
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle