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"I've always thought of myself as a reporter."
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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."
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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."
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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."
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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."
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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."
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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
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"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."
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"A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything."
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"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."
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"My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer."
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"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."
People
"Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?"
Knowledge
"A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers."
Education
"Poetry is life distilled."
Life
"When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water."
Love
"What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project."
Work
"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise."
Gold
"Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else."
Ethnicity
"Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words."
Life
"I've always thought of myself as a reporter."
Thought
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