"What I need to write is a complicated equation. Maybe if I knew I'd be one of those writers, one of the steady ones. I rest upon my assertion that there has to be some balance of energy, or, failing a balance, a focused intensity of ALL energy. I've experienced both, I suppose."

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“I don't think performance out of duty yields very much. Coercion is never the way to go.”
“Some people don't think that what I do is art - but for me art exists by definition. The beautiful and most liberating thing about being an artist is the ability to say that what I make is art. Art exists because the author says so.”
“Do you know what love is? It is the most beautiful, comprehensive, divine, pranic energy given to you by God, which you should have experienced. But what did you do? You turned it into mucous and saliva and you call it kisses and hugs and sex.”
“When you try to do something you've never done before, you risk falling on your face.”
“If you would bring the magic out of your mind - the magic which will transform everything - you must believe.”
“Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.”
“I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.”

Source : Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge
“If your values are not used as the constitution of your organization, or if they are compromised, they become just words on paper.”

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