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"It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me."
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"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"
"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."
"We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world."
"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."
"Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them."
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"Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law."
"The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think."
"I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic."
"I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."
"My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair."
"That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes."
"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
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