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“In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.”
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“I think all of us, looking back on our careers and our lives, there'll probably be a "road not taken" that we'll regret and mourn. Certainly, artists will always feel that way, especially when the path taken was more commercial than the one not taken.”
Source : "Being Nina Simone". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 25, 2015. 
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“The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West.”
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“I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.”
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“End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.)”
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“I never got into politics for it to be a career.”
Source : "10 questions for J.C. Watts". Interview With Douglas Waller, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2002.
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“I'm not against Twitter or Facebook. I'm not against anything. Never say never.”
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“I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.”
