Black girl black girl lips as curved as cherries full as grape bunches sweet as blackberries
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In bombers named for girls, we burned The cities we had learned about in school—...
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We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.
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I wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me— Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,...
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But really no one is exceptional, No one has anything, I'm anybody,...
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One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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They said, 'Here are the maps'; we burned the cities. It was not dying—no, not ever dying;...
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It was not dying: everybody died.
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It is like any other work of art. It is and never can be changed. Behind everything there is always The unknown unwanted life.
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But be, as you have been, my happiness...
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The blind date that has stood you up: your life.
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The head withdraws into its hatch (a boy's), The engines rise to their blind laboring roar,...
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A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
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They said, "Here are the maps"; we burned the cities. It was not dying—no, not ever dying;...
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I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good ... if a Christian voted for Clinton, he sinned against God. It's that simple. Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called by God to conquer this country...
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If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.
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Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.
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You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
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Don't dwell on reality it will only keep you from greatness.
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And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.
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We have too many actors for the jobs available.
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Don't dwell on reality; it will only keep you from greatness.
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Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.
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