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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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Personal Development
"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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Personal Development
"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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Personal Development
"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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Personal Development
"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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Personal Development
"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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Personal Development
"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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Personal Development
"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."
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Personal Development
"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."
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"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."
Inspirational
"I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit."
Being
"As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching."
Change
"In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them."
Democracy
"Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits."
Business
"Let us banish fear."
Fear
"This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible."
Leadership
"The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples."
Education
"The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there."
Money
"If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery."
Government
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