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"One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
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"Beauty... Is what you are after a lifetime of struggle in the face of hostility, surviving, and standing scarred and unafraid, triumphant before your enemies."
"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."
"Encouragement fuels great strength and great achievement."
"Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears."
"When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again."
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"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."
"The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?"
"Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men."
"A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills."
"When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings."
"Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life."
"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."
"It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity."
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