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Quotes
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Yusef Komunyakaa
"It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction."
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Yusef Komunyakaa
#Addiction Quotes
#Decision Quotes
#Language Quotes
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“What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?”
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“It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.”
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“When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.”
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“Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.”
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“Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.”
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“It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.”
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“Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.”
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“Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ?”