"In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assimiliationists with similar tastes, from similar backgrounds, and of similar pretensions, Langston Hughes will be to the twentieth century what Walt Whitman was to the nineteenth."

-- Ishmael Reed

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“I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.”

Source : "Neil Armstrong - First Television Interview (Part-2)". "60 minutes", www.youtube.com. 2005.
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.139, Pan Macmillan
“A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.”
“The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.”
“If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.”
“It is the understanding that sees and hears; it is the understanding that improves everything, that orders everything, and that acts, rules, and reigns.”
“Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.”
“If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indianwe can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.”

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