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I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.

Brave Innovative Thinking Out
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As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

Road Playing Music Shoved
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God, when will you create a woman who will be fulfilled in herself, a full human being, not anybody’s appendage? she prayed desperately.

Create Full Being Woman
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I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

Lives Palestine Iran Interview
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I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

Strength Endure Myself Find
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The leaves were still on the trees, but were becoming dry, perched like birds ready to fly off.

Fly Bird Dry Leaves
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If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

Revolution Dripping Range Televised
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There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.

Arguments People Choose Waste
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Marriage is lovely when it works, but if it does not, should one condemn oneself ? I stopped feeling guilty for being me.

Condemn Guilty Being Lovely
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I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.

Tours Anticipations Always Start
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The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.

Heard Show Coming Compliment
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Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

Movie Weeks Next Tour
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You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.

Lower Being Person Must
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With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

Technology Good Innovation Advent
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I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

Status Basically Wasting Financing
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This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

Theory Slayed Shot Poodles
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Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.

Ecosystem Politicians Apathy Voting
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Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

Rather Play Horn Through
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Living entirely off writing is a precarious existence and money is always short, bit with careful management and planning I found I could keep my head and those of my family, through God's grace, above water.

Water Grace God Family
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All my big heroes are literary, writers.

All.Literary Heroes Big Writers
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Writers simply have to write, and not worry so much about what people think, because public opinion is such a difficult horse to ride.

Ride Horse Difficult Public
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I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

Become Photographer Working Better
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When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

Ahead Desert Saharan Cross
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

African Approve Book Bride
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When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

Decency Civility Community Compass
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In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

Black Britain Deal Exist
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Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Society Chained Nailed Floor.Weakness
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I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

Believe Both Communicator Enable
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I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.

Followers Word Okay Twitter
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I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

Feminist Liberation Toward Woman
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Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

Young Vitality Punk Rock
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As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

Book Different Money Publisher
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I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

Developing Nigerian Rather Somebody
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You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There'll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other.

Psychos People Care Other
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I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.

Africa Background Cultural Highlight
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The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

Money Criminal Instead Scholar
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If you don’t understand, ask questions. If you’re uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway.

Understand Question About Anyway
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I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

Informed Well Nonetheless Try
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Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

Become Show People Only
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I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.

Angry Anger Change History
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The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.

Truth Statement Itself Anti-war
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I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N.

Lied Face Camera Night
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The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

Pushing Punk Sticking Man
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I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.

Instrospective Weird Harmful Probably
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To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

Company Orphanage Donate Powerful
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Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

Interest Type Worried Exactly
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I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.

Amazing Extremely England Encountered
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There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.
Forgivable Easily Some Make
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In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.

Israel Truth Happen Rock
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When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.

Punk Never Know Reply
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