"I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious."

-- Nikki Giovanni

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“When the War ended in 1945, I started selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Then I sold insurance door to door. I even tried selling cars.”
“A well balanced, inclusive approach, is essential for the proper government of any country.”
“Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.”

Source : Sonia Johnson (1991). “The ship that sailed into the living room: sex and intimacy reconsidered”
“I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?”
“I eat everything, that's a problem. I don't have discipline. My favorite dish is the Caribbean. Meat, rice, lots of grains. But I do like to do exercises. Lately, I've been having capoeira classes and lots of cardiovascular exercises, such as jogging and cycling.”
“Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.”
“And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.”

Source : 1918 'Strange Meeting', collected in Poems (published1920).
“It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.”

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