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"Be bold enough to appreciate. Be strong enough not to criticize."

"The divinity within is an endless strength."

"The greater the pressure the brighter the diamond."

"Without roots a tree, no matter how tall, cannot stand."

"You don't need armor if your skin is thick. You don't need a sword if your mind is sharp. You don't need a shield if your heart is strong. You don't need a fortress is your soul is secure."

"A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf."

"Modern humans are taught from the childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are embodiment of glory and children of immortal strength. Eventually a society full of bravehearts will rise."
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"It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion."

"Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city."

"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."

"You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?"

"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."

"I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it."

"I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about."

"The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book."

"Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network."
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