In each of us there is a flame that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it burns within us, we cannot be destroyed.
First with the head and then with the heart.
First with the head, then with the heart, you'll be ahead from the start.
In teaching me independence of thought, they had given me the greatest gift an adult can give to a child besides love, and they had given me that also.
It seemed certain now that small could defeat big. All it took was brains and skills and heart and a perfect plan.
It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.
Life is all beginnings and ends. Nothing stays the same, lad.
Never take advice from a donkey.
Nothing is unexplained. Nature is a chain reaction. Everything is dependent on something else. The smallest is as important as the largest
Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!
Sweet potatoes in their jackets have a large comfort value built into them
The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power of one was the courage to remain separate, th think through the...
The rapacious white tribe who were arriving in increasing numbers, not only as convicts but also as settlers, wanted to own everything they touched. They slashed and burned the wilderness so that they...
Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the conf...
I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.
Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you where to look, and then you will have for yourself all the brains that...
I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.
I had never seen a prison, nor had I even imagined one, but there is a racial memory in man that instinctively knows of these things. The architecture of misery has an unmistakable look and feel about...
What is a german? to say a man is a german, what is that? does it tell you if he is a good man? or a bad man? no, my friend, it tells you nothing about a man to say he is german. a man must think what...
But I started to realize that it doesn't begin like this, that anybody can be the target for prejudice, all you have to be is too something . Too short, too fat, too clever, too big, too small, too sl...
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