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"In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent."
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"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"
"It is not something we often find out, but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary."
"Brutes find out where their talents lie a bear will not attempt to fly."
"Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way."
"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
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"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."
"Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination."
"The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies."
"The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers."
"If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own."
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"The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people."
"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."
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