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"I've traveled. All over. I've never seen anything like you. How could anything be put together like you? Do you know how beautiful you are? Have you looked at yourself?''I'm looking now."
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"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."

"To enjoy the beauty and abundance of life, revitalize your life."

"You don't have to be beautiful to have a beautiful life."

"If you want to be really beautiful, adorn yourself with a smile."

"The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate."

"We are all looking for beauty all around us, only those whose heart is loving and appreciative will find it."
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"It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion."

"Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city."

"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."

"You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?"

"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."

"I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it."

"I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about."

"The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book."

"Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network."
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