"Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead."

-- Langston Hughes

“Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.”
“Using awareness, personal responsibility and inner work to review our unskillful or frightened reactions, we become more adept at turning habitual reactions to balanced responses. These moments are very exciting and gratifying.”
“Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric.”
“Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.”

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“The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.”
“We are all winners here.”
“Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.”

Source : "Open letter to the Masters of Dublin". The Irish Times, October 7, 1913.
“We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.”

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