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"It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity."
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"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them."
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"I must get my soul back from you, I am killing my flesh without it."
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"But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again."
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"The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high."
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"Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?"
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"He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven."
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"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."
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"There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul."
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"Sin is whatever obscures the soul."
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"The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind."
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"It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity."
Soul


"A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills."
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"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."
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"When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings."
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"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."
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"If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known."
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"An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
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"To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires."
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"Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men."
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"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
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