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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."

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

"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."
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"The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it."

"Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical."

"Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman."

"Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

"Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions."

"Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth."
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