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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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I spend a lot of time with my characters. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

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We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath. ↗

— Brad Dourif

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The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings. ↗

— Rita Dove

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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely. ↗

— Rita Dove

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I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day. ↗

— Rita Dove

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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. ↗

— Rita Dove

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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing. ↗

— Rita Dove

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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends. ↗

— Rita Dove

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Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature. ↗

— Rita Dove

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