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"One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!"
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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."
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"The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do."
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"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."
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"Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."
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"One thought fills immensity."
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"Thought is the mental imagery of what you want to do, have or achieve."
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"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows."
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"We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them."
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"Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again."
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"Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it."
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"Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?"
Love


"There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth."
Beauty


"CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not."
Violence


"I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic."
Travel


"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
Friendship


"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."
Injustice


"I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest."
Being


"My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant."
Family


"To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way."
Love


"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."
People
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