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We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin....
Reading is important -- read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
Source:...
Art is refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
Source: In...
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet...
It is brave to be involved
To be not fearful to be unresolved.
Source: do not...
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books -- but it is terrible when one has to live...
Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? -- a hoax fabricated by poets for their...
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to...
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other...
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
Our visions begin with our desires.
Source: In Black Women Writers at Work,...
There are no new ideas still waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten...
Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it in a certain way,...
If I waited to be right before I spoke, I would be sending little cryptic messages on the Ouija board, complaints from...
I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is this -- we wander for distraction,...
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a...
The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it...
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.