“The hood is also a low-stress, comfortable life. All your mental energy goes into getting by, so you don’t have to ask yourself any of the big questions. Who am I? Who am I supposed to be? Am I doing enough? In the hood you can be a forty-year-old man living in your mom’s house asking people for money and it’s not looked down on. You never feel like a failure in the hood, because someone’s always worse off than you, and you don’t feel like you need to do more, because the biggest success isn’t that much higher than you, either. It allows you to exist in a state of suspended animation.”
Source: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“MAMA: You must not dislike people ’cause they well off, honey.
BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as much sense as disliking people ’cause they are poor, and lots of people do that.”
Source: A Raisin in the Sun
“It’s not right that some people have so much and others have so little.”
Source: Hidden Pieces
“Poor women suffer terrible sexual violence that goes unreported. Because of their social class, these women do not have access to therapy or other methods of healing. Their repeated abuse ultimately eats away at their self-esteem, driving them to drugs, prostitution, AIDS, and in many cases, death.”
Source: The Vagina Monologues
“The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like something’s happening, but really nothing’s happening at all.”
Source: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“سأل مواطن أروبى 3 موطينين من 3 بلدان مختلفة فقال :
ما رأيكم في أكل اللحم ؟
أجاب الأول: و ماهو اللحم؟
أجاب الثاني: و ماهو الأكل؟
أجاب الثالث: و ماهو الرأي؟”
Source: سنوات المتاهة
“The master doesn’t need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke of a pen, but the pressing call of necessity will reestablish it.”
Source: Book of Wisdom
“Instead of you pouring out your life and giving out your life and exchanging it for a porridge called salary, instead of selling out your life bit by bit until you are old and empty and until you become so old that they send you off to die in retirement, you should come to the realization that you could actually multiply and reproduce your life through the power of time conversion.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Believing in negative thoughts is the single greatest obstruction to success.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“It is real hard work that will release your potential,”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?