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"In a way, her strangeness, her naivete, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings; had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like any artist with no art from, she became dangerous."
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"The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch."
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"The music world is where child prodigies go to die."
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"And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello."
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"I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career."
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"Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces."
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"Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you."
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"There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking."
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"Why I write music? Because it hurts not to."
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"In a way, her strangeness, her naivete, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings; had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like any artist with no art from, she became dangerous."
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"A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute."
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"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."
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"Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are."
Justice

"The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it."
Health

"It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion."
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"Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city."
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"You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone."
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"Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us."
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"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."
Society

"You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?"
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"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."
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