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"It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me."
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"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"

"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."

"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."

"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."

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"The verdict of the world is conclusive."

"I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here."
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"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."


"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."


"Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?"


"To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way."


"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."


"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."


"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."


"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."
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