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"You can cry, ain't no shame in it."
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"Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value."
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"We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough."
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"The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt so tainted, and worthless, and wrong-only that I did, and whenever I looked up from my books I was swamped by slimy waters rushing in from all sides."
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"I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame."
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"When you're ashamed of their action, to ask them the reason of their actions can make you a fool."
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"You can cry, ain't no shame in it."
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"You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done."
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"We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us ashamed of ourselves of our relatives of our incomes of our accents of our opinion of our experience just as we are ashamed of our naked skins."
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"It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA."
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"It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame."
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"On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'"
Feet
"There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?"
Father
"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."
Life
"You can cry, ain't no shame in it."
Shame
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like."
Money
"It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling."
Feelings
"My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason."
Movies
"If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States."
President
"I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid."
Character
"Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there."
Change
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