"A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow."

-- Marguerite Young

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“There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything.”
“Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.”
“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.”

Source : Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1182, Library of Alexandria
“Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong.”
“Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.”

Source : Walter Rodney (2012). “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”, p.114, Fahamu/Pambazuka
“I'm definitely influenced by lots of different things - from music, from reading, from I don't know... I have a lot of different sources of inspiration that I tap into when I need to get something done.”
“I never cry about what I don't have. I'm always positive.”
“Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.”

Source : Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.189, Abrams

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