I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
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The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.
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Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.
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