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"There is no such thing as a black middle class."
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"He got why Eleanor tried so hard to look different. Sort of. It was because she was different - because she wasn't afraid to be."
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"Proudly buck the trend. Dare to be different."
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"When you find yourself wanting to turn your children, or pupils, or even your neighbours, into people exactly like yourself, remember that God probably never meant them to be that. You and they are different organs, intended to do different things."
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"Life is too short as we all know it to be. So why dare to spend it trying to live up to other people's worldly expectations of you?"
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"I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16 I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining."
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"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."
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"She said my glasses made me look like a butch jock's locker room bitch."
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"The world doesn't celebrate your similarity but your difference."
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"Stuck in my own trap of writing about a nonsubject, I think I can defend my own self-respect, and also the integrity of a lost girl, by saying two things. First, the trivial doings of Paris Hilton are of no importance to me, or anyone else, and I should not be forced to contemplate them. Second, she should be left alone to lead such a life as has been left to her. If this seems paradoxical, then very well."
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"Another great mistake is this; another understandable error is this: living to live the footprints of others when you have your own foot! Live your footprints! You were born unique! If possible, put the shoes of others, (they must fit you however) but don't walk as they walked and as much as possible, don't leave the same footprints they left except you were born to be like them or you can change the face of their footprints into a unique artifact!"
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"They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class."
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"There is no such thing as a black middle class."
Individuality

"We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed."
Unity

"I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie."
Violence

"Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics."
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"The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!"
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"There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant."
Equality

"Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford."
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"If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down."
Violence

"You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs."
Poverty
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