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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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