"It's ironic when black non-Muslims say Islam is not a religion that uplifts black people when two of the most celebrated black heroes in recent history were both Muslim, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali."

Heritage, Islam, Heroes, Religion, Identity

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"It's ironic when black non-Muslims say Islam is not a religion that uplifts black people when two of the most celebrated black heroes in recent history were both Muslim, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali."

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"Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Heritage, Legacy, Family, Power, Tradition

"Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies."

Bruce Catton, American Historian

Heritage, End, Eyes, Sunset

"Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton."

Willa Cather, American Author

Heritage, Family, Blood, Identity

"Remember your name. Remember that you and I are brothers, are the children of trans-Atlantic rape. Remember the broader consciousness that comes with that. Remember that this consciousness can never ultimately be racial; it must be cosmic."

Ta-Nehisi Coates, American Writer

Heritage, Identity, Brotherhood, History, Consciousness

"The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking deep into my eyes, he whispered: 'The Gond kingdoms have fallen, their people live dispersed in poverty: the teak trees and the jungles have been cleared... but the importance of the Gonds must not be forgotten!"

Tahir Shah, British Author

Heritage, Loss, Memory, Responsibility

"My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska."

Standing Bear, American Leader

Heritage, First, Living, Now, States

"Noble fathers have noble children."

Euripides, Greek Poet

Heritage, Nobility, Family, Legacy, Honor

"It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry."

John Phillips Marquand, American Novelist

Heritage, Ancestry, Generations

"To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Heritage, Courage, Tradition, Family, Legacy

"Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours-being born on it, working it, dying on it."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hourTrue friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there."

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"You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are."

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"Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world."

"Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies."

"Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton."

"Remember your name. Remember that you and I are brothers, are the children of trans-Atlantic rape. Remember the broader consciousness that comes with that. Remember that this consciousness can never ultimately be racial; it must be cosmic."

"My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska."

"Noble fathers have noble children."

"It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry."

"To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole."

"Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours-being born on it, working it, dying on it."

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"Little boys run in gangs, grown men organise teams."

"If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up."

"The more you overthink the less you will understand."

"Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs."

"All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers."

"Respect can only be given to those who have earned it by working for it."

"Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure."

"Great men know how to control two things, their women and money."

"Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hourTrue friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there."

"You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are."