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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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Joy is finding a pregnant roach
and squashing it
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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No one said a word... in 1776...
to us about Freedom
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Childhood remembrances are always a drag
if you're Black.
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
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We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
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We are all more than our experiences
And less than our dreams.
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You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
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There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
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In the name of peace
They waged the wars
ain't they got no shame.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
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Mistakes are a fact of life
It is the response to error that counts.
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But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.
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Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.
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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
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Writers... I think... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.
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Neither of them ever
said what they meant
and i guess nobody ever does.
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I wish we had been enslaved... at the same rate we are being set... free.
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We are not friends
because of the laughs
we spend
but the tears
we save
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We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.
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There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
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Most of us love from our need to love not
because we find someone deserving.
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There's a reason we lose a lot its not our game
and we don't know how to score.
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Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.
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It's a sex object if you're pretty
and no love
or love and no sex if you're fat
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Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.
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I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
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Born:
June 7, 1943
(age 81)
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