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“The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.”
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“I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?”
Source : "Colored People: A Memoir". Book by Henry Louis Gates, therumpus.net. 1994. 
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“Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to faint all of the time.”
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“Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.”
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“I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“As long as you're not hurting anyone, your choices are your choices.”
Source : "Free to Be Miley". Interview with Amanda Petrusich, www.papermag.com. June 9, 2015.
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“If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.”
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“I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.”
Source : Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.311, University of Missouri Press
