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"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."
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"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."
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"The remedy is worse than the disease."
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"Discipline is needed in our temperance."
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"Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future."
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"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."
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"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same."
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"Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."
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"We never repent of having eaten too little."
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"Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on."
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"Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending."
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"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."
Society
"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."
Wisdom
"I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man."
Relationship
"I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons."
Equality
"For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event."
Politics
"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."
Writing
"Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live."
Nature
"She knew Paul D was adding something to her life-something she wanted to count on but was scared to... His waiting eyes and awful human power. The mind of him that knew her own. Her story was bearable because it was his as well-to tell, to refine and tell again. The things neither knew about the other-the things neither had word-shapes for-well, it would come in time."
Relationship
"I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people."
Wisdom
"Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are."
Justice
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