"I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness."

Awareness, Curiosity, Engagement, Variety

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"I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness."

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"If there is a wasp in the room, I'd like to be able to see it."

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"There is music the moment you start listening."

Marty Rubin, American Author

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"Don't get too lost in consumerism or materialism. As for ownership, the ultimate test of it is were you born with it and can you take it with you when you leave?"

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"God is aware of the hypocrisy in the hearts of men."

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"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."

Unity, Ignorance

"If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?"

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"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."

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"The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance."

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"I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."

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"When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich."

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"I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?"

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"This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before."

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"I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use."

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