"You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."

Freedom, Change, Determination, Courage

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"You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."

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"When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free."

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"Freedom for freedoms sake."

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"So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their wings and where it can take them, nor the envy as we look on them."

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"When you are imprisoned by the rules of conformity, it tames your imaginative capacity and steals your free thinking abilities."

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"Liberation begins with liberation of mind, soul and body."

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"Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion."

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"Make a difference about something other than yourselves."

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"You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone."

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"Those white things have taken all I had or dreamed," she said, "and broke my heartstrings too. There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks."

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"Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable."

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"What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?"

Fear

"A woman is an important somebody and sometimes you win the triple crown: good food, good sex, and good talk. Most men settle for any one, happy as a clam if they get two. But listen, let me tell you something. A good man is a good thing, but there is nothing in the world better than a good good woman. She can be your mother, your wife, your girlfriend, your sister, or somebody you work next to. Don't matter. You find one, stay there. You see a scary one, make tracks."

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"Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind."

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"The best thing she was, was her children."

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