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The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really…
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I am not an African. I am an American.
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When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of…
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The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.
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As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it…
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Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited…
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Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter;…
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Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially…
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No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions…
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
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I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance.
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The past cannot be changed or forgotten, edited or erased. It can only be accepted.
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No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.
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Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then…
— David Cross
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As a young woman, Ama Ata Aidoo the freedom fighter vowed never to write love stories. Let’s delight in the fact that…
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