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Homer Poet
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"You never know when an old calendar might come in handy! Sure, it's not 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?"

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack."

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Kobe Bryant Professional Basketball Player
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"I'm more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It's just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else."

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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
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"God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done."

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Cornel West Philosopher
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"For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites."

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Anne Sexton Poet, Author
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"I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not."

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William Faulkner Novelist, Poet, Playwright
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"We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"And do so, love, yet when they have devised What strainèd touches rhetoric can lend, Thou, truly fair, wert truly sympathized In true plain words by thy true-telling friend; And their gross painting might be better used Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused."

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"He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves."

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Tracy Chapman Singer-Songwriter
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"The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together."

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