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Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of the most remarkable artists of our time of any genre, and as a hip-hop artist he carries the weight of that art form with...

Michael Eric Dyson

Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.

Tony Buzan

A temporary coalition of anger against the old regime was no basis for a stable government.

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

Always take all the time to reflect that circumstances permit, but when the time for action has come, stop thinking. (Andrew Jackson)

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach.

Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen

Even if it's absurd to think you can change things, it's even more absurd to believe that it is foolish and unimportant to try.

Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales Of People, Passion and Power

History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate.

Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing

Spain, for so long a mere geographical expression, was somehow transformed into an historical fact.

Imperial Spain: 1469-1716

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

<...> tyranny is a central theme of American history, that racial exploitation and racial conflict have been part of the DNA of American culture.

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

John Adams

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.

Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca--Bogart, Bergman, and World War II

[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.

Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas

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