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  • James Baldwin Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
    Source: Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • A. Lawrence Lowell Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
    A. Lawrence Lowell
    American educator and legal scholar (1856 - 1943)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • John Donne Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Audre Lorde Poetry is not a luxury.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Emily Dickinson Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Allen Ginsberg Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Audre Lorde Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
    Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 38
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • John Keats Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • John Keats Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity - it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Basil Bunting Poetry? It's a hobby.
    I run model trains.
    Mr Shaw there breeds pigeons.
    It's not work. You don't sweat.
    Nobody pays for it.
    You could advertise soap.
    Source: Odes What The Chairman Told Tom, II:6
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Addison Mizner Poets are born, not paid.
    Addison Mizner
    American architect (1872 - 1933)
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  • Bob Dylan Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
    Suicide remarks are torn
    From the fool's gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
    Plays wasted words, proves to warn
    That he not busy being born is busy dying.
    Source: Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bobby Jindal Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger Political courage is not political suicide.
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Austrian-American actor, politican, businessman and investor (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Arthur C. Clarke Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Ben Nicholson Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Frank Moore Colby Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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