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Education is all a matter of building bridges.

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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

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America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

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The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

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When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 1st, 1914

Died: April 16th, 1994

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