"Why all these years have I been agreeably turning down the stereo every time the phone rings?"

-- Sara Genn

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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

Source : Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)
“The main thing that God asks for is our attention.”
“I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.”
“Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.”
“When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people./May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings./And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.”

Source : "Amiri Baraka: Poet Laureate" by Saul Williams, www.thefader.com. November 2004.
“I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.”
“The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.”
“Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.”

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