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" Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. "

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" I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on. "

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" You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty. "

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" I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks. "

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" From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work. "

" People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't. "

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