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“There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.”

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My last defense / Is the present tense.

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Nothing could stop Mississippi.

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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

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I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, 'Look at what's happening in this…

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She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they…

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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates…

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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

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No man can give me any word but Wait.

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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them,…

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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.

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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

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