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You don't need numbers you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they* must accept *you*. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love.
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There are people in the world for whom coming along is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform
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Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.
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Not only was I not born to be a slave I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen forget.
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After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free.
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