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"We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."
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"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."
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"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it."
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"It's such a Bore Being always Poor."
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"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?"
Dream
"When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul."
Soul
"Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
Life
"I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me."
Democracy
"We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line."
Being
"Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying."
Happiness
"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go."
Life
"I will not take "but" for an answer."
Will
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