"As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think."

Wisdom, Trust, Power, Dream

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"As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think."

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"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

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"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."

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"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."

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"Knowledge makes you powerful and proud wisdom makes you simple and humble."

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"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."

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"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."

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"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."

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"For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event."

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"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are."

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