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"There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it."
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"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."
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Personal Development

"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."
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Personal Development

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
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Personal Development

"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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Personal Development

"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."
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Personal Development

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
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Personal Development

"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
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Personal Development

"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."
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Personal Development

"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
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Personal Development

"Religions get lost as people do."
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"You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun."
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"Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend."
Money

"I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely."
Life

"Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways."
People

"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."
Despair

"There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it."
People

"Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience."
Experience

"She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves."
Love

"As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat."
Now

"Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town."
Thought
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