"There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation."

People, Joy, Spiritual, Will

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"There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

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"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams."

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"They be marching hand in hand, like going to war."

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"When I no longer have your heartI will not request your bodyyour presenceor even your polite conversation.I will go away to a far countryseparated from you by the sea- on which I cannot walk -and refrain even from sendinglettersdescribing my pain."

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"But what was good tween us must have been nothing but bodies, she say. Cause I don't know the Albert that don't dance, can't hardly laugh, never talk bout nothing, beat you and hid your sister Nettie's letters. Who he?"

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"Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?"

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"It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all."

Time

"People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't."

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"I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together."

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"I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered."

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"If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it."

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