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Henry Louis Gates quote: "My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black."

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

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His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot holdanything else. It seems to him there area thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world. As he paces in cramped circles, over and over, the movement of his powerful soft stridesis like a ritual dance around a centerin which a mighty will stands paralyzed. Only at times, the curtain of the pupilslifts, quietly. An image enters in, rushes down through the tense, arrested muscles, plunges into the heart and is gone. Rainer Maria Rilke
The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers which are planted in too rich a soil, strenght state; usefulness are sacrificed to beauty; and the flaunting leaves, after having pleased a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk, long before the season when they ought to have arrived at maturity. Mary Wollstonecraft
Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me. Emma Thompson
I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart. Albert Camus
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The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle. It really is. Woody Allen
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What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading! James Boswell
He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same. Jodi Picoult
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Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot. Terry Prachett
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Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end. Vernor Vinge