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"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."
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"I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit."
"The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable."
"Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward."
"I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free."
"I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?"
"We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world."
"To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world."
"It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me."
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"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."
"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."
"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions."
"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
"Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned."
"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
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