"somebody/ anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin/ struggle/ hard times sing her song of life she's been dead so long closed in silence so long she doesn't know the sound of her own voice her infinite beauty she's half-notes scattered without rhythm/ no tune sing her sighs sing the song of her possibilities sing a righteous gospel let her be born let her be born & handled warmly."

Source : Ntozake Shange (2010). “For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

Ntozake Shange

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“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.”

Source : Marriage and Morals ch. 5 (1929)
“Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part.”

Source : "Fictional character: Tom Booker". "The Horse Whisperer", www.imdb.com. May 15, 1998.
“The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.”
“My wife says OBE stands for Old Big 'Ead.”
“A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening”
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”

Source : Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves”

Source : Italo Calvino (1985). “Mr. Palomar”, Harcourt
“My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing I wrote past page 75 made any kind of sense. Nothing. Which would have been fine if the first 75 pages hadn't been pretty damn cool.”

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