"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."

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"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."

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"Every child must be taught how to think, read and write."

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"Feeding the poor will not eradicate poverty, but feeding the mind with true education will."

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"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

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"First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law."

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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

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"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

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"Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book."

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"In prison it must be made rich Library, people must educate their self there. Not to go stupid and more."

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"The authorities of this so-called education take pride in their ship shape structure where they manufacture dumb manikins."

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"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?"

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"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."

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"Every child must be taught how to think, read and write."

"Feeding the poor will not eradicate poverty, but feeding the mind with true education will."

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

"Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it."

"First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law."

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

"Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book."

"In prison it must be made rich Library, people must educate their self there. Not to go stupid and more."

"The authorities of this so-called education take pride in their ship shape structure where they manufacture dumb manikins."

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"Poetry is life distilled."

"First fight. Then fiddle."

"I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge."

"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?"

"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."

"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."

"Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home."

"I've always thought of myself as a reporter."

"I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker."

"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."