"Old folks are the nation."
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"All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama."
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"What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity."
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"An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible."
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"What is happening to the daughters of the yam? Seem like they just don't know how to draw up the powers from the deep like before. Not full sunned and sweet anymore."
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"I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man, conquering a woman, beating someone out of something, abusing each other's dignity in order to prove that I am a man, I am a woman."
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"Medication without explanation is obscene."
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"It's a dismally lonely business, writing."
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"We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste."
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"One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues."
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"And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living."
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"I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it."
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"People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do."
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"... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods."
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"There are times ... when any visitor - in person, by phone, by mail - is an intruder, a burglar, a space hogger, an oxygen taker, a chaos maker, a conflict inducer, a mood chaser, and a total drag."
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"The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life."
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"I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves."
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"old folks is the nation."
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"Not all speed is movement."
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