Samuel R. Delany (Samuel Ray Delany Jr.) Quotes
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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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It's important to have a dream no matter how old you are.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
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Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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I made the decision to end business relationships with the Trump Organization simply because it was the right thing to do. No one approached me, asked me or pressured me to take this action.
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I first started going to shows when I was about 16 - seeing local bands. I mean, I loved music before that, and I played a bit of guitar when I was younger and thought maybe I'd become a guitar teacher or something, but when I saw other kids doing it, I was like, 'Whoa, these are great bands! I can do it, too.'
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.
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I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.
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my boyfriend is a rock god baby (and not kiss-of-death(sorry))
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The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
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One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years and I suspect that there's not a president in our history that at some point hasn't been subject to these protests.
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I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.
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We intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious planet that any human being can imagine and, really, beyond anything any human being can imagine.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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The strange thing about the apocalypse is that it's uneven. For some people, it goes one way and for others another way, so that there's always this shifting relation to the narrative of the disaster. Sometimes apocalypses are just structural fictions, and sometimes they're real. Sometimes a narrative requires an end - the fact that the beginning was always leading somewhere becomes clear at the end. There's an idea that we're always in the middle, but we posit this apocalyptic end in order to also be able to project into the past or the beginning. I think that's true and false.
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Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.
