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"It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens."
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"She may have been among them but she could never be one of them. She was without inclusion for-as-much as she was not "one of the girls" and she wasn't "one of the guys." She was an outsider gazing in, endlessly comfortless, while they wished they had what it took to be less like the others and more like her."
"The image of God is in every human."
"When we speak, dress, and think like others, we live with the goal of achieving the approval they have."
"I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent."
"I feel like how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got so backwards, trying to make myself matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do."
"Your original self is worth more than your imitation of someone else."
"Without accepting ourselves, we try to meet requirements of society and do everything to be accepted."
"Find yourself, who are you?Choose yourself, who can you be?Define yourself to find your destination."
"It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the man that makes an appearance."
"Ay every inch a king."
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"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."
"All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now."
"To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!' (Buck, 57)"
"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels."
"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings."
"Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman."
"This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night."
"Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung"
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