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“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X [Japanese-Language Edition].
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X [Japanese-Language Edition].
“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
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