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"It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage."
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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."
"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."
"To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing."
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"It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence."
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."
"We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity."
"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?"
"The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter."
"Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them."
"Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved."
"So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance."
"Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?"
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