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“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.”
― Make Good Art
― Make Good Art
“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
― Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays
― Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays
“For above all, in behalf of an ailing world which sorely needs our defiance, may we, as Negroes or women, never accept the notion of - "our place.”
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“Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am...only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.”
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“Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.”
― The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One
― The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One
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City Lights Books is a landmark independent bookstore and publisher that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.
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