"A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers."
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
Poetry is life distilled.
Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Published Sources for
the above Quotations:
F:
""Report From Part One," 1972."
R:
"In "My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget," by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1995."
A:
"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N:
"Advice to graduates, Buena Vista University Graduation, 1995"
K:
"In "Famous Black Quotations," ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995."
