Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.
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We are each other's magnitude and bond.
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.
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