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"Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black."
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"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"
"Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception - it means breaking the barriers of the rugged sociological system that impede in the progress of human civilization - it means trying out new things for the first time in human history and succeeding in a few while failing in some. And that is how a species grows to become more advanced."
"A book is a whole world that you can fit into your pocket."
"The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge."
"Life is a curriculum unique to every student."
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
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"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread."
"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."
"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."
"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever."
"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."
"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
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