Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth. - Cornel West

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For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down. - Walter Kirn

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I think, in the future, people are going to look back and say, 'I can't believe that gay and lesbian people had to fight to be able to get married.' - Edy Ganem

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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

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Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny. ― Steve Maraboli

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All you have to do is drive by the empty tennis courts and basketball courts and compare them to the skate parks... c'mon people, get with the program - the future is now! - Jeff Ament

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History shows that there are no invincible armies. ― Joseph Stalin

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Failure is impossible.

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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. - JAMES BALDWIN

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