"I have always tried...to lay before the colored race a cross section of it's own life, to view the colored heart from close range."

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Oscar Micheaux

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“"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?”
“For the entire Desiderata go to Inspirational Poems page”
“Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.”
“Higher energy prices act like a tax.”
“Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.”
“When you aren't sure what it is you hate or why you even hate it, it's hard to hold onto the details...you just hold on to the feelings.”
“I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.”
“I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.”

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