"Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience."

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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"I loved your breaking down that door, repeated Djuna. Through Rango she had breathed some other realm she had never attained before. She had touched through his act some climate of violence she had never known before."

Anais Nin, American Author

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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."

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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."

Stephen King, American Author

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"To 'live' is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Any experience can be transformed into something of value."

Vash Young, American Author

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