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"At times he could be very critical. He didn't like prints on me. He didn't like stripes. He didn't like boldness. He said I was petite and that was taking away from my looks."

"Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you."

"Go for it. It will make a great story."

"When we go out knowing whose interests we are representing, people cannot oppose us because it is pointless to fight God, who lives in us."
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"Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun."

"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."

"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."

"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches."

"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."

"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"
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