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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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"You can be found better man then me.But where you will found Toy like me with whom you can play a lot in many ways and who just keep simple with out hurt you."
"That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity."
"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."
"If, like me, you suffer from lack of self-confidence you'll know that the term is made up of two conflicting words, and that confidence isn't easily found in the self."
"Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied."
"I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity."
"I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck."
"It is tragic the way fearful people put all of their fears and insecurities into others, the way they strangle their dreams - often in the name of love."
"It's always the people who strive to find, and tell you about one of your imperfections, that want to feel one step above you. The truth is their ten steps below you with nothing better to say."
"There was an edge to his expression, like he didn't trust anyone who was more attractive than he was."
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"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."
"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."
"I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man."
"I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons."
"For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event."
"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."
"Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live."
"She knew Paul D was adding something to her life-something she wanted to count on but was scared to... His waiting eyes and awful human power. The mind of him that knew her own. Her story was bearable because it was his as well-to tell, to refine and tell again. The things neither knew about the other-the things neither had word-shapes for-well, it would come in time."
"I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people."
"Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are."
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