“Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.”
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“For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.”
“The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.”
“A clear rejection is always better than a fake promise.”
“Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end.”
“I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.”
“Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering.”
“Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital , in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit .”
“The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.”
“The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.”
“Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.”
“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”
“He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.”
“While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.”
“Now I'm told this is life, and pain's just a simple compromise.”
“Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.”
“A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.”
“Consequences are unpitying.”
“In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.”
“It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.”