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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

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All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

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Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

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When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: April 4th, 1928

Died: May 28th, 2014

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