It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Someone says you have no art so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms and so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing.

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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

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The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation.- Donald Trump

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Try to pause each day and take a walk to view nature. ― Lailah Gifty Akita

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He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

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There is nothing like a dream to create the future. - Victor Hugo

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We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

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Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

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Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.

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