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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

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Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, "Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?"

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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.

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I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

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I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.

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America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

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You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

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The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you're not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That's what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet.

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Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

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I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

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Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.

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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.

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I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.

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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

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You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.

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Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.

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Resistance is the secret of joy!

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