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“won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.”
Source : Lucille Clifton (2013). “The Book of Light”, p.25, Copper Canyon Press
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“Thunderstick?... You actually said, 'Thunderstick?'... That, my friend is a Winchester 30.06.”
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“Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.”
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“Don't eat a mushroom stem and see colors, eat the whole bag and see GOD”
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“Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.”
Source : "The making of a golden boy" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2005. 
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“As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that won't leave you tempted to lie. Failing that, I'd rather be disliked for who I truly am than loved for who I am not. So, I tell my story. I write it down. I even publish it. Sometimes this is a humbling experience. Sometimes it's embarrassing. But I haul around no terrible secrets.”
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“People like you are the reason People like me need medication.”
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“If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.”
