To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy...

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy...

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in...

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in...

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the...

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the...

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Nothing recedes like progress.

Nothing recedes like progress.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America...

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America...

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time...

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time...

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of...

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of...

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little...

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little...

We fit together so well...it's like pieces of a puzzle, the way your hand fits...

We fit together so well...it's like pieces of a puzzle, the way your hand fits...

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars...

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars...

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience...

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience...

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.