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I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
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I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
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I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
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I'm a product of my surroundings. I grew up on Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Jerry Reed, and also Run-D.M.C., the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, and Biz Markie.
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I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.
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If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.
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If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
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If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.
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In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
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In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.
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It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
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It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.
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It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.
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It's in our nature. We need to explore and find out what's going on outside of who we are.
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Jazz is very much a part of my life. I work with the Thelonious Monk Institute and do the artwork for their program every year.
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Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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