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"The freshness of a smile and the fragrance of a perfume often define the personality of a woman."

"To manifest the beauty of life, think beauty, dream beauty, and see the beauty in the simple things all around you."

"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."

"Not the eyes, but the heart sees the beauty."

"We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words - to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it."

"True beauty does not shine, it attracts."
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"Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?"


"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."


"My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair."


"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."


"One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!"


"I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic."


"Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law."
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