For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

  • -- Countee Cullen 康梯·卡伦

因为我们必须是这样或那样的东西,一种资产或一种负债,是帮助你飞翔的翅膀上的腱,还是把你束缚在地球上的锁链。

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Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.

听我说,世界的四分之四——我是一个亲戚!给我力量,让我走在柔软的大地上,一个相对于一切的一切!求你赐我眼睛能看见,又赐我力量能明白,使我可以像你一样。有了你的力量,我才能迎风而行。

I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do.

我不想让它成为一辈子的事情。我不相信法定期限的限制,但如果人们愿意,他们可以限制自己,这就是我决定做的。

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

这个毫无价值的地球上的最后一个声音将是两个人试图发射一艘自制的宇宙飞船,而且已经在为他们下一步要去哪里而争吵了。

Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.

到目前为止,工作是我生命中最有营养的事情。