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"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."
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"Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races."
Fault
"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."
Dew
"The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade."
Thought
"We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available."
Being
"I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own."
Feelings
"I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family."
Family
"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."
People
"All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic."
Life
"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."
Business
"I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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