If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
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If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.
No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.
Change is in the air, as old patterns fall away and new energies are emerging. Consciously release what needs to be released, and welcome with a full embrace the newness you've prayed for and so richly deserve.
Go further than you planned. Ask for the moon: you will be surprised how often you get it
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Change is the end result of all true learning.
You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this.
Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered-- that is when we feel the greatest pain. I can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. You learn to live your new life, and you can't imagine, or even really remember, how things were before.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.
My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.
We are the people our parents warned us about.
One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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