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"Do something with your one life, instead of following others. While just watching your one life pass you by."
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"Don't you know that most people take most things because that's what's given them, and they have no opinion whatever? Do you wish to be guided by what they expect you to think they think or by your own judgment?"

"Instead of trying to hide yourself from the world, make it your signature trait. Make what most people think to be the worst of you become something your proud of."

"Don't follow the crowd; let the crowd follow you."

"The world says fit in, the universe says stand out."

"An excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts."

"Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker."

"DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth as she walked by. Her crispy hair twinkled in the summer sun as her big proud stomach moved her on down the block while I watched, not caring whether or not she was a poem."

"I stood there in the doorway before you saw me and I watched you,' he said.'And I watched the other girls. And they all looked as though their faces came out of one mold. Yours didn't."

"The world doesn't celebrate your similarity but your difference."

"No man is ordinary, only their performances are ordinary."
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"We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion."

"I just want you to know that where ever life takes you, I'll always be happy for you as long as its something that makes you happy because that's all that really makes me happy. Why? I'm just listening to my heart and all it's telling me is to understand. Which in a way I can but then again I can't. I'm use to it all though because not everyone lives a fair life if you know what I mean."

"You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world."
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