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"I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went."
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"If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react."
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"When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today."
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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."
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"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
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"The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts."
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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."
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"I think Australians do well here because we feel a bit naughty, like we're in America and if they only knew how much fun we were having, we'd all get thrown out, you know."
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"Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today."
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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."
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"The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough."
Hurt
"This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet."
Kiss
"I'm a real rebel with a cause."
Cause
"Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home."
Home
"I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel."
Day
"From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman."
Beginning
"Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music."
Music
"I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important."
Music
"I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die."
People
"Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world."
Life
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