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    Frederick Douglass
    “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
    tags: oratory
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    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”
    ― W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
    tags: the-persistent-problem-of-race
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    Oscar Wilde
    “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
    Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality
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    William Shakespeare
    “To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
    tags: character, descent, heritage, mothers, sons, the-tempest
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    Charles Dickens
    “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
    tags: comment-of-the-times
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    Arthur Miller
    “Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.”
    ― Arthur Miller, The Crucible
    tags: justice-without-mercy
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    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
    ― W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
    tags: dubois, identity, pragmatism
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  • #10
    Malcolm X
    “I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.”
    ― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
    tags: a-dream-deferred
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    James Baldwin
    “People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: humor, religion
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    Richard Wright
    “I was leaving the South
    to fling myself into the unknown . . .
    I was taking a part of the South
    to transplant in alien soil,
    to see if it could grow differently,
    if it could drink of new and cool rains,
    bend in strange winds,
    respond to the warmth of other suns
    and, perhaps, to bloom”
    ― Richard Wright
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    Ralph Ellison
    “I'd like to hear five recordings of Louis Armstrong playing and singing "What Did I Do to Be so Black and Blue"-all at the same time. Sometimes now I listen to Louis while I have my favorite dessert of vanilla ice cream and sloe gin. I pour the red liquid over the white mound, watching it glisten and the vapor rising as Louis bends that military instrument into a beam of lyrical sound.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: imagery, poetic
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    Ralph Ellison
    “America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78307 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
    21194 likes



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