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"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."
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"I will never be below the title."
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Personal Development
"Scholars will argue with each other about everything."
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Personal Development
"I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box."
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Personal Development
"Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them."
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Personal Development
"Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you."
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Personal Development
"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer."
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Personal Development
"We can choose to live under the ruler-ship of God or under the ruler-ship of the devil."
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Personal Development
"Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long."
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Personal Development
"Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts."
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"Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for."
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"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."
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"I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit."
Being
"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."
Change
"In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them."
Democracy
"Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits."
Business
"Let us banish fear."
Fear
"Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority."
Education
"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."
Will
"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."
Leadership
"The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples."
Education
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