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"First fight. Then fiddle."
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"Never fight an inanimate object."
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"Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there."
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"I abide where there is a fight against wrong."
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"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."
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"National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane."
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"When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph."
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"I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism."
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"Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win."
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"Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them."
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"The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world."
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"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."
People

"Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?"
Knowledge

"A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers."
Education

"I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker."
Writing

"Poetry is life distilled."
Life

"When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water."
Love

"What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project."
Work

"I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge."
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"First fight. Then fiddle."
Fight

"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise."
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