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old folks is the nation.
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Age
Folks
Old Age
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Old folks are the nation.
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Folks
Nations
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Not all speed is movement.
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Movement
Speed
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It's a dismally lonely business, writing.
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Business Writing
Lonely
Writing
Lonely Business
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Medication without explanation is obscene.
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Health
Explanation
Medication
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Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
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Justice
Revolution
Self
Begins
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The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.
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Jobs
Irresistible
Revolution
Job
Writer
Make
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The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.
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Pieces
Stories
Way
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The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face.
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Faces
Life Is
Self
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Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.
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Transformation
Way
Writing
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The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible
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Art
Smile
African American
Novelists
Revolution
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And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.
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Technology
Asks
Might
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She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.
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Daydreaming
Mother
Wonder
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Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
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Life
Misery
Personality
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One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues.
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Monkeys
Six
Struggle
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An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.
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Art
People
Revolution
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The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.
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Dream
Failure
Real
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The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
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Dream
Friends
Failure
Real
Unreality
Realize
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TAKE HEART TO FLAT OUT DECIDE TO BE WELL AND STRIDE INTO THE FUTURE, SANE AND WHOLE
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Ambush
Flats
Heart
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I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.
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Folks
Unto
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My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.
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Responsibility
Telling The Truth
Trying
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We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.
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Stupid
Stupidity
Waste
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Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.
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Streets
Writing
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Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.
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Community
Names
Writing
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What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.
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Discipline
Greed
Unity
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Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . .
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Anticipate
Anticipation
Past
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Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.
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Life
Work
Stories
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(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.
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Flower
Honest
People
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When we ever invited the beast to dinner he didn't come in and swipe the napkins and start taking notes on the tablecloth 'bout how to take over the whole house?
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Dinner
House
Napkins
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What is happening to the daughters of the yam? Seem like they just don't know how to draw up the powers from the deep like before. Not full sunned and sweet anymore.
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Daughter
Sweet
Yams
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People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do.
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Space
People
Writing
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When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.
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Dream
Aspect
Daytime
Dialogue
Aspects
Discover
Great Deal
Normally
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I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.
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Golden
Trying
Want
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I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.
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Convinced
Kind
Linear
Order
Trying
Circular
Extract
Meaning
Random
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Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.
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Atmosphere
Language Words
Taken
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Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.
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War
Fashion
Winning
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There are times ... when any visitor - in person, by phone, by mail - is an intruder, a burglar, a space hogger, an oxygen taker, a chaos maker, a conflict inducer, a mood chaser, and a total drag.
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Space
Oxygen
Phones
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All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.
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Dance
Music
Artist
Drama
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... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.
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Men
Emotional
Intelligent
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I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man, conquering a woman, beating someone out of something, abusing each other's dignity in order to prove that I am a man, I am a woman.
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Dirty
Mean
Sex
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For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints, was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush... Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole.
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Grief
Heart
Self
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