Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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There are things you can't back down on, things you gotta take a stand on. But it's up to you to decide what them things are. You have to demand respect in this world, ain't nobody just gonna hand it to you. How you carry yourself, what you stand for--that's how you gain respect. But, little one, ain't nobody's respect worth more than your own.

Mildred D. Taylor's Popular Quotes

No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one.

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Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried …

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I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of other white people who feel the sam…

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Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to use the language that was spoken dur…

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We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.

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I do not know how old I was when the daydreams became more than that, and I decided to write them down, but by the time I entered high school, I was …

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These are things they need to hear, baby. It's their history.

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There were too many ears that listened for others besides themselves, and too many tongues that wagged to those they shouldn't.

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We ain't never gonna lose this land.

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