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"In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent."
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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."
"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."
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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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."
"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."
"The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself."
"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."
"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."
"If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto."
"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."
"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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