"All literature is protest."

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Richard Wright

#Literature Quotes #Protest Quotes

“Beauty and folly are generally companions.”
“Currencies are things that you use to pay for other things; commodities are things that you buy. If art is going to be one or the other, it's going to be a commodity, not a currency.”
“I feel that people have asked me my age I don't actually think that thirty is particularly young for a first book to come out. And I sometimes wonder if a male author would have been asked this question so frequently.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.”
“...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.”
“If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there.”
“I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.”

Source : Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”
“Late to bed, late to rise, makes a man unhealthy, poor, and stupid.”

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