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Countee Cullen

"For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth."

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"For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth."

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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."

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"I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth."

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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

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"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

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"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is."

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