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Quote by William Faulkner
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality becaus

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. – William Faulkner

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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. – William Faulkner

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Time
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next. – William Faulkner

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Fight, Fighting
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. – William Faulkner

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I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit. – Ida B. Wells

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Black History

The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness. – W.E.B. DuBois

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Black History

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Black History

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. – Oprah Winfrey

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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. Its the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone elses pain is as meaningful as your own. – Barbara Kingsolver

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Obviously, the easiest recipes are the most successful when it comes to the home cook, because theyre not intimidated by them. If Im doing Boy Meets Grill, and I do something very simple like grilled hamburgers or steaks or chicken, those are the most sought-after recipes. – Bobby Flay

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A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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