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I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

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If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

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I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.

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Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

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I appreciate and enjoy my age.

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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.

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Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

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I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

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If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

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I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'

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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.

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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

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No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

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It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

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