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- Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
- No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
- You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long…
- It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your performance and survival-you…
- If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the…
- He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform…
- Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave…
- I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can.…
- Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface…
- A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under…
- Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and…
- When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you…
- Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
- We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to…
- I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I…
- The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't…
- There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after…
- When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.
- Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
- Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not…
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