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• Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and…
• It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
• Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment…
• Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural…
• The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by…
• I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be…
• If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
• America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the…
• And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find…
• I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point…
• We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to…
• I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it,…

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