"There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you feel crazy, and how America can create interesting levels of contradiction."

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Source : "Hilton Als, Constructing Genre". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

Hilton Als

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“I was always thinking the funny things but was always quiet and scared to be made fun of.”
“Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.”

Source : Sir Richard Francis Burton (1894). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law”
“I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.”
“At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that fact doesn't prevent science from proving that the earth as a whole is spherical. No one nowadays denies it. Well...we are still at the stage of believing that life itself is flat, the distance from birth to death. Yet the probability is that life, too, is spherical and much more extensive and capacious than the hemisphere we know.”
“Let her see me clearly.”
“Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You....”

Source : Jan Karon (2003). “In This Mountain”, p.157, Penguin
“To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it”

Source : Donald Hall (1988). “Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-1988”
“The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need at least 10 years to understand it. Fundamental physics has advanced so far from the understanding of most people that there is really a big disconnect.”

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