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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."
"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."
"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
"If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?"
"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."
"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."
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"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever."
"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."
"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."
"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions."
"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."
"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now."
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