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"Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear."
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"Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear."
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"Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."
Life
"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
People
"By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication."
Communication
"I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
People
"I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed."
Time
"The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike."
Time
"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."
Life
"There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale."
Truth
"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."
American
"Education is all a matter of building bridges."
Education
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