"I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!"

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Alice Mattison

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“Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.”
“I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook wouls be fundamentally changed . The all-important border would be invisible, that noisy arguement suddenly silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a unified facade that would cry out for unified understanding, for homogeneous treatment. The earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or communist; blue and white,not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied.”
“Not every effort at loving difficult people will have a positive ending... We don't love people in hopes of a happy ending. We love them because it's the right thing to do.”

Source : Doug McIntosh, Paula McIntosh (1999). “Love Full Circle: The Golden Rule”, Moody Pub
“Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?”
“Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.”

Source : William Clark Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.26, Open Road Media
“Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.”
“Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose”
“Everyone's dying. A little, every day. Make it count.”

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