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I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.
Samuel R. Delany
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Samuel R. Delany
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 1
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The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!
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If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful.
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Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.
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