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"The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars."

"Desire and hope will push us on toward the future."

"It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task."

"If you want to know if someone was meant to be in your future, then remove all the worldly things about them from your mind. Don't think about their looks, the intimate moments or their personality. Now, think about how they made you feel, how they improved your life and what virtues they possess that push you to want to become better. Did they bring you closer to God? Did they bring you to your life mission? Did they ever lie to you, betray you or made it impossible for you to feel comfortable speaking your mind? When you remove all the shine from a diamond, it becomes a glass rock. What value is it then? See beneath the surface and you will know who your future is with."

"You can only see your current horizon. Every time you move nearer to your desired destination, new horizons will become clear. New, previously hidden, opportunities will come into view."
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"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever."

"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."

"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."

"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."

"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions."

"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."

"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now."
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