Black Power was really a major challenge to the social privileges and structures of the kind of privilege that I had grown up with. That whole belief... that you will only be able to advance if you are perfectly behaved, if you present yourself as what white people would consider an ideal of whiteness... all of that just began to burst open.
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Related Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a frien... CRAIG GROESCHEL Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you ... DEYTH BANGER The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you ... CHANCE THE RAPPER I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still b... GEORGE WOODCOCK When you are true to yourself, you will find yourself more easily able to pursue the things that mat... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN Whiteness–the whole constellation of practices, beliefs, attitudes, emotions that are mixed up in ... ROBERT JENSEN Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live ... HAIM SHAPIRA I've never really had specific goals and stuff like that - I think I sort of learned early on th... JANE LYNCH The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil... CHRISTINA ENGELA If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand... SAID NURSI There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would b... ERIC LIU What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as a... CRAIG GROESCHEL Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some peo... ROBERT GREENE What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elem... SIOUXSIE SIOUX People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the ... OMAR SY Acceptance" is a very important word in our lives. People drive themselves into madness and death th... C. JOYBELL C. You cannot look at the success of black people by seeing who is on the front of Ebony magazine or by... ELAINE BROWN You must have a definite purpose of life. To reach that purpose, you must be flexible. DEBASISH MRIDHA If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would th... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE 'The Cosby Show' was a show about black people that was fundamentally and unequivocally frie... REBECCA TRAISTER I'll understand if you don't want me. But I will be heartbroken. You are all I ever dreamed of and h... MAEVE BINCHY To be or not to be that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You grow up and recognise that in an educated, secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance.... HOZIER You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to ... TEGAN QUIN It just proves what I've always believed. You can't let any one person take hold of your dreams; you... WILLIAM HENRY I want to slap all black people of power that are puppets to the white man. NERISSA IRVING That's SHIT! How do you remove it? You just put it inside the trash, easy as that. DEYTH BANGER Put your mind to it and you will do it. This is how the impossible become possible SOTONYE ANGA The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are wit... C. JOYBELL C. The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert... ELIZABETH GILBERT Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is ... ROBERT COLLIER I know, brother, that you are a straightforward man, and that you pride yourself on it. But put one ... MILAN KUNDERA There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was ac... PATRICK NESS To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of... SARAH PAULSON Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of... BRYAN FULLER The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS We all know that there are language forms that are considered impolite and out of order, no matter w... JUNOT DíAZ I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON I have a strong belief, kind of an underlying element of this whole project, that you can't really u... DOUG DECKER Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you m... VIGGO MORTENSEN If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, w... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Of course, you want to make yourself noticed, but this is not the time for attracting attention to y... AKINORI IWAMURA If you are true to yourself you will attract people that are just the same. NERISSA IRVING Dare to follow your own paths. Dare to be yourself. Dare to be different. LAILAH GIFTYAKITA The question is, what are you doing to continually rekindle the passion of your life? What kind of i... ZIG ZIGLAR What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the ... ALAN W. WATTS Just thinking about that, if that were to really happen, if an alien were to come down and really ab... EVAN PETERS I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as ... LYNN SAMUELS The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life ... ANNE LAMOTT I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself,... LUCILLE BALL I know from the bottom of my heart and with all of it, that it doesn't matter if at the end of your ... C. JOYBELL C. When you are thirteen, you spend all your time imagining what it would be like to live in a world wh... CHARLES YU See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, ... M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN I kind of really study different angles of the film. You see how people's bodies are, how they r... STEFON DIGGS Are you able to open to the possibility that what you want is not what you need right now? If it was... KELLY MARTIN What is happening is not ideal. Sometimes nothing goes smoothly in the preparation for fights, and t... RICKY HATTON No one ever said your life would be easy. The nature of being human makes life for all of us a chall... JAMES A. MURPHY I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother... KAJOL Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind... LEMONY SNICKET My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you?... FLEUR EAST Loo, life is black and white. You don't know what's good for you, because you don't see the black an... C. JOYBELL C. You grow up and recognize that in any educated secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance.... HOZIER Then you would have acted to change history, but you would have replaced one history with another. Y... DEXTER PALMER Every believer should be an apostle since each believer is sent by the Lord Jesus to go and bear fru... HENRY HON If we do not understand something we pretend it does not exist .Pretending that something does not e... GARY F EVANS... There’s only the one, see. When you fall in love with a girl, she’s the bloody White Album. That... ROB SHEFFIELD You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care... QUEEN LATIFAH You never want to be the first one of your friends to get married. If you are, just resign yourself ... JENNIFER CLOSE Look honestly at yourself. Ask yourself if you are the person you always wanted to be. If you can se... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you want to ask one question, ask yourself, what are you giving to the universe and only that wil... AMIT RAY You seem to forget that the sun must set. You knew perfectly well that I would not be with you long ... KATE MCGAHAN If you try to imagine as nearly as you can what an amount of misery, pain, and suffering of every ki... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER He said that my problem was that I was perfectly healthy and had the illusion that I would be able b... JAMES C. COYNE If you can just believe that you are able to do anything, then you will be able to do the work of Go... SUNDAY ADELAJA You were with Margo Roth Spiegelman last night? At THREE A.M.? I nodded. Alone? I nodded. Oh my God,... JOHN GREEN I think that we live in a very timid age, and a part of our timidity arises from our unwillingness t... SALMAN RUSHDIE In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't... CRAIG GROESCHEL Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track t... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Embrace YOU...Believe in yourself, in this very moment...forgive yourself for all mistakes and 'bad'... ANGIE KARAN What if I just want to die?" "Then I will be sad and disappointed that you cheated yourself out... MEGAN BOSTIC
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. THOMAS JEFFERSON I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. THOMAS JEFFERSON Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. THOMAS JEFFERSON Always take hold of things by the smooth handle. THOMAS JEFFERSON Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man. THOMAS JEFFERSON It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wr... THOMAS JEFFERSON No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. THOMAS JEFFERSON No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms. THOMAS JEFFERSON No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it. THOMAS JEFFERSON He who knows best knows how little he knows. THOMAS JEFFERSON Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have,... THOMAS JEFFERSON To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by educat... THOMAS JEFFERSON Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. THOMAS JEFFERSON It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. THOMAS JEFFERSON The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noi... THOMAS JEFFERSON The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working unde... THOMAS JEFFERSON When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. THOMAS JEFFERSON The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery. THOMAS JEFFERSON The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the stre... THOMAS JEFFERSON A sense of this necessity, and a submission to it, is to me a new and consolatory proof that whereve... THOMAS JEFFERSON With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliat... THOMAS JEFFERSON The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been sta... THOMAS JEFFERSON The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest mode... THOMAS JEFFERSON