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"I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place."
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"Through self-development, you can continuously fortify yourself for the next level of increase."

"Knowledge is an intellectual art. Wisdom is a spiritual discipline."

"There is nothing you can do about it. Self-education is the most important thing that can happen to you."

"If you fail an examination, it means you have not yet master the subject. With diligent study and understanding, you will succeed in passing the exams."

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"As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that."


"Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA."


"Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy."


"I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like."


"Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers."


"I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together."


"The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war."
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