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“Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.”

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This book serves as a foundational resource for readers seeking to comprehend the origins, manifestations, and impacts of racism in society. more

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Nikki Giovanni

Nikki Giovanni is an American poet, writer, and activist, born on June 7, 1943. She is renowned for her poignant and evocative poetry that frequently tackles social and political issues. Giovanni's writing has had a profound impact on the African American literary community and beyond, earning her numerous awards and accolades for her literary contributions. more

“Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up to my room and call up Jane and have her come over and bandage up my guts. I pictured her holding a cigarette for me to smoke while I was bleeding and all. The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding.”

Rooms Ruins Smoke Guts Cigarette Jane Bleeding Elevators Fingerprints Bandages

Author:J. D. Salinger

“Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.”

Humans Doe Art Change Courage Creative Art Is Acts Of Courage Personal Courage

Book:Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.”

Knows Heaven Angel Dance

Author:Saint Augustine

“Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.”

Joy Hate Alive Cold Sorrow Selfish Indifferent Detached Unselfish Lifeless Being Selfish Unconcerned

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.”

Opinion Sight

Book:The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.”

Thinking Want Lasts America Boys Bedroom Monk

Author:Susan Beth Pfeffer

“You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes.”

Kind Soul Hard Dollars Your Soul Colonialism Imperialism Isms

Author:Malcolm X

“When you told me the first time that Valentine was your father, I didn't believe it. Not just because I didn't want it to be true, but because you weren't anything like him. I've never thought you're anything like him. But you are. You are.”

Want Firsts Believe Father First Time Being True Valentine

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!”

House Rocks Safe Built Shining Ugly Sand Palaces

Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”

Life Realizing Sun Travel Contentment Elsewhere Traveled Exploring Haunting Explorers Great Travel Travel Adventure Adventure And Travel Road Trip Sedentary Travel Bug Contentedness

Author:Isabelle Eberhardt

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