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"It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself."
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"Expand your mind. Nurture your heart. Develop your body. Cultivate your soul."
"It is necessary to analyze all the restricting beliefs and complexes, which we acquired in childhood, from family, school and society."
"You better go alone, than with negative people!"
"Once you have produced your best self, then you will be able to produce new seeds and fruits after your kind."
"To become a better you, take note of what gets you offended quickly and never go there or let it come to you."
"Investing time in adding value to yourself is the best way to invest time."
"Improve your relationship with you."
"The great compete not only against others, but against themselves."
"You have to control the circumstances and things in your life. They should not control you."
"Your everyday actions will define you and your virtue."
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"The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."
"The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."
"She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since she had been away."
"The question of identity is a question involving the most profound panic-a terror as primary as the nightmare of the mortal fall."
"Then the door is before him. There is darkness all around him, there is silence in him. Then the door opens and he stands alone, the whole world falling away from him. And the brief corner of the sky seems to be shrieking, though he does not hear a sound. Then the earth tilts, he is thrown forward on his face in darkness, and his journey begins."
"Ultimately, the artist and the revolutionary function as they function, and pay whatever dues they must pay behind it because they are both possessed by a vision, and they do not so much follow this vision as find themselves driven by it. Otherwise, they could never endure, much less embrace, the lives they are compelled to lead."
"The necessity, then, of those "lesser breeds without the law-those wogs, barbarians, niggers-is this: one must not become more free, not become more base than they: must not be used as they are used, nor yet use them as their abandonment allows one to use them: therefore, they must be civilized. But, when they are civilized, they may simply "spuriously imitate [the civilizer] back again, leaving the civilizer with no satisfaction on which to rest."
"Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one's sense of one's own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundation."
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