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Black children need to see their lives reflected in the books they read. If they don't, they won't feel welcome in the world of literature. The lives of African-Americans are rich and diverse, and the books our children read should reflect that.

Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we need a theory of revolutionary ecology that will encompass social and biological issues, class struggle, and a recognition of the role of global corporate capitalism in the oppression of peoples and the destruction of nature.

There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual.

This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence needs to be abolished. It’s a socially sanctioned practice of blaming the victim. We must begin blaming our culture, which stigmatizes, demeans, and strips trans women of their humanity.

The fact that you wish to become extremely_x000D_successful must mean that you currently do not see yourself as such._x000D_Therefore, you need to change. The question you should be asking is_x000D_what do you need to become?

When you're feeling lost, take heart. It's just your brain gathering the information it needs to make good decisions.

The limb that a person most needs to purify is his tongue.

What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.

Friendship is necessary to our well-being—not just nice but necessary. We all hunger for it; it’s a universal need.

If the president of the United States, if he's smart, if he needs help, he’d come. I could do a favor for the president

We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become.

Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

Its important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them.

Since 1960, there have been more plastic syringes available than anyone could need. And yet, for the decades since then, WHO has done NOTHING to stop the spread of vicious diseases that result from the mass re-use of dirty needles.

The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able to tolerate ambiguity and not be driven by fear into a rigid, single-solution approach to problems, who are rational, foresightful and who look for facts; who can draw inferences and can control their behavior in the light of foreseen consequences, who are altruistic and enjoy doing for others, and who understand social forces and trends.

I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.

We need from every man who aspires to leadership-for himself_x000D_ and his company-a determination to undertake a personal_x000D_ program of self-development. Nobody is going to order a man_x000D_ to develop .... Whether a man lags behind or moves ahead in_x000D_ his specialty is a matter of his own personal application. This is something which takes time, work, and sacrifice. Nobody can do_x000D_ it for you.

Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints of unexplored sexuality that combine to produce a euphoria so intense it becomes transporting, a state beyond life or death. Such horror is unspeakable not because it is gruesome but because it remains outside the realm of things that can be easily defined or explained in conventional ways.