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- The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.
- You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world...…
- People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely afford to be…
- I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to change, and he…
- If the word integration means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are,…
- It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point…
- It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a…
- I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.
- But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as…
- Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever. Later, you can…
- Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the…
- The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious…
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