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African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced ... TRACIE THOMS
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Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe... HELEN OYEYEMI It felt very fresh to me, and it feels very contemporary - this idea that conflict's not being a...
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So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids. TODD GITLIN
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Cam was sitting on the bed, still clothed. His head was lowered, hands braced on his knees in the po... LISA KLEYPAS
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of ... MARK TWAIN
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novel... A. N. WILSON
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD
We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture. M. H. ABRAMS
There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this id... SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE
I've always loved writing emotionally rich, character-driven novels that explore the way people ... SUSAN WIGGS
work. play. passion. JIM CLARK
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM
When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespea... MARILYNNE ROBINSON
Often leaders have the best intentions, but people cannot read their minds. That's why it's ... DOUGLAS CONANT
Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find? RIDLEY SCOTT
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The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that'... DOROTHEA LANGE
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I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they a...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The ability to make wise choices is the most valuable skill a person can develop.
ABHISHEK RATNA
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I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to p... KENNETH BRANAGH
The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN Where there is woman there is magic.
NTOZAKE SHANGE one thing I don’t need
is any more apologies
i got sorry greetin me at my front door
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NTOZAKE SHANGE I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act ...
NTOZAKE SHANGE Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power.
NTOZAKE SHANGE Multiculturalism is a white people joke.
NTOZAKE SHANGE Where there is a woman there is magic.
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dilemma/ i havent conque...
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NTOZAKE SHANGE somebody/ anybody
sing a black girl's song
bring her out
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to know...
NTOZAKE SHANGE i found god in myself
and i loved her
i loved her fiercely
NTOZAKE SHANGE
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When you reach out to God humbly, you'll find that He's already reaching out to you. CRAIG GROESCHEL I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to crea...
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I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the autho... E.A. BUCCHIANERI People always talk about Shakespeare being a very contemporary playwright. This production shows you...
JAMES MORRISON
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The eye should learn to listen before it looks. ROBERT FRANK
Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you. KAMI GARCIA When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy....
MORLEY SAFER
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really usef... CORY DOCTOROW
Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as ... ADAM DRAPER
But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
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I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web a... GARRY TRUDEAU
I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rul... CECELIA AHERN
We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold Which ... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
We get to live in a time that we get to use social media as a tool. It's not just a face on a pi... GIGI HADID
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to th... GERTRUDE STEIN
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why ... VIVIEN LEIGH
