In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.
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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."Maya Angelou
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.
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It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, ... I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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