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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.
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Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and…
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Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
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‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then…
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I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in…
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For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be…
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Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our…
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within…
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There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley…
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Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it…
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Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to…
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Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.
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The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder…
— Jack Kerouac
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who…
— Bobby Fischer
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From my perspective of a guy in his late forties, its becoming more and more clear to me that the right thing…
— Eric Bogosian
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Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was…
— Rik Mayall
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A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody…
— Miles Davis
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It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and…
— Jane Wiedlin
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A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on…
— John Newcombe
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In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I…
— Patricia Cornwell
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A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker,…
— John Lewis
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