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“Despite the obstacles of race and class, I was always taught that I could accomplish anything I set my mind to. African-American writers, for me, were a beacon, a guiding force.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.”
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“The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.”
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“I never felt pretty. I don't feel pretty now. I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty. So I don't feel badly. And I think it worked out well, because I found that all the girls I know who got by on their looks, as time went on and they faded, they were nothing. And they were very disappointed. When you're somebody like myself, in order to get around and be attractive, you have to develop something, you have to learn something, you have to do something. So you become a bit more interesting.”
Source : "Iris Apfel’s Art of Style" by Richard Brody, www.newyorker.com. April 29, 2015. 
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“You can live and learn, but you cannot learn to live. So just live.”
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“I want to just at least make it weird for you to watch Cosby Show reruns.”
Source : "Watch the Hannibal Buress Stand-Up Act That Helped Trigger Bill Cosby’s Downfall" by Reid Nakamura, www.thewrap.com. April 26, 2018.
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“If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.”
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“There have been innumerable films about film-making, but Otto e Mezzo was a film about the processes of thinking about making a film -- certainly the most enjoyable part of any cinema creation.”
