"If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it."

-- Paul Robeson

#America Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.”
“We know that we are happy when our mind is peaceful, and unhappy when it is not. It is therefore clear that our happiness depends upon our having a peaceful mind and not on good external conditions. Even if our external conditions are poor, if we maintain a peaceful mind all the time we shall always be happy.”
“You always gotta reach the people who feel bad about themselves or insecure about themselves, and I think 'Like 'Em All' was just a perfect song for all the girls, and I think that's why it blew up like it did.”
“The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility.”
“Ability without enthusiasm is like a rifle without a bullet.”
“Never write more than two pages on any subject.”
“Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.”
“Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.”

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