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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.

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Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.

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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

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I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

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For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.

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There are things you stand up for because it's right.

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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: June 7th, 1943

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