"What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else."

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Source : "Fooling with Words (Part One)". billmoyers.com. May 28, 1999.

Lucille Clifton

#Answers Quotes

“In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.”
“Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. (92)”
“I move, therefore I am.”
“Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.”
“I'm curious about life, period.”
“That we have some history together that hasnâ€™t happened yet.”
“Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?”
“If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.”

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