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"Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form."
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"Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart's desire."
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"Attitude is the most beautiful expression of a positive life."
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Personal Development
"If misery loves company, misery has company enough."
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"It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected."
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"My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges."
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"A positive attitude will help fortify your courage to build unshakable confidence and healthy self-esteem."
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"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."
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"It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck."
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"A positive attitude will help you edge out cynicism and pessimism to restore hope and optimism."
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"The quality of your life hinges on your attitudes and offerings."
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"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."
Society
"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."
Wisdom
"I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man."
Relationship
"I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons."
Equality
"For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event."
Politics
"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."
Writing
"Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live."
Nature
"She knew Paul D was adding something to her life-something she wanted to count on but was scared to... His waiting eyes and awful human power. The mind of him that knew her own. Her story was bearable because it was his as well-to tell, to refine and tell again. The things neither knew about the other-the things neither had word-shapes for-well, it would come in time."
Relationship
"I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people."
Wisdom
"Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are."
Justice
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