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“... because white men can't / police their imagination / black men are dying.”
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“Art is not national. It is international. Music is not written in red, white and blue; it is written with the heart's blood of the composer ...”
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“When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida.”
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“... there's something about Paris that gives you a mental slap all the time, and you can't just sit still and do nothing. You've got to work, to keep up with the pace, the sting in the atmosphere.”
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“... anger is more productive than fear.”
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“... for her the whole business of fiction was an arduous putting into words of ideas, pictures, thoughts that continually fought with her to keep their anonymity, their right to a shadowy and secret existence. She never put a thought on paper without feeling as though she were dragging some shrinking little crustacean out of its small shell with a pin.”
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“The gods have a curse for him who willingly tells another the wrong road.”
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“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”