Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 2303.
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We are powerful because we have survived.
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 139 -
We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'
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We as artists are actively encouraged - by other authors, your agent, publisher, and society - not to think about money, strategy, how to manage your career, how to create a brand, because we're supposed to focus on the art.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.
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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
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We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.
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We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
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We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
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We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
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We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.
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We didn't think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended - that makes me think he has all the qualities to join Arsenal!
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We do not owe allegiance to any candidate because they share our party or our color, but because they share our principles and our conscience.
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We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
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We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
Source: A Lonely Rage (1978)
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