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Source: iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

“He was a boy made to be conquered, maybe even saved. But not by Lulu. She was neither a knight or a Nightingale. She was a girl made to be selfish. She would have her own adventures.”

Love Life Growing Up Independence

Book:Not the Girls You're Looking For

Source: Not the Girls You're Looking For

“Await no further word or sign from me: your will is free, erect, and whole—to act against that will would be to err: therefore I crown and miter you over yourself.”

Growing Up Independence Last Words

Book:The divine comedy

Source: The divine comedy

“Corny as it may sound today, I was used to thinking of men in terms of guidance and protection but suddenly no man felt I needed his guidance or protection since I had the aura of money to protect me.”

Inspirational Inspiration Growth Independence

Book:A Tale of Five Cities & Other Memoirs

Source: A Tale of Five Cities & Other Memoirs

“Someone told me the other day that he felt bad for single people because they are lonely all the time. I told him that’s not true I’m single and I don’t feel lonely. I take myself out to eat, I buy myself clothes. I have great times by myself. Once you know how to take care of yourself company becomes an option and not a necessity.”

Lonely Independence

Author:Keanu Reeves

“I've never been lonely, just alone. I think people who can't stand being alone are silly. How do they know who they are or what they're like if they're never alone?”

Lonely Independent Independence Alone Lonliness

Book:Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River

Source: Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River

“Self-reliance is the highest expression of self-respect.”

Greatness Genius Independent Independence Self Respect Conformity Self Reliance Nonconformity Self Reliant Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Growing your own food is like printing your own money.”

Food Independence Sustainability Gardening Self Sufficiency Growing Food

Author:Ron Finley

“My character was forged by independence and self-sufficiency in the face of loneliness, so I assumed the tools for survival were already in my kit, it was just a matter of learning to use them. But not only do I not have the tools, I have no plans and no supplies and seem to be working in a different medium entirely.”

Life Character Independence Unfairness

Book:The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

Source: The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

“Eighty-three years old. A lifetime of being a bachelor. This extended life of aloneness might have an effect on a man's character, might it not? Independence might have rusted into obstinacy.”

Character Age Independence Aloneness Obstinacy Bachelorhood

Book:The Great Mistake

Source: The Great Mistake

“It seems likely to me now that the very element in my character that took possession of me there on top of that mountain, the fierce independence that was suddenly mine, to remain inside me no matter how it scared me when I tumbled, was an inheritance. Indeed it was my chief inheritance from my mother, who was braver. Yet, while she knew that independent spirit so well, it was what she agonizingly tried to protect me from, in effort to warn me against. It was what she shared, it made the strongest bond between us and the strongest tension. To grow up is to fight for it, to grow old is to lose it after having possessed it.”

Character Protect Mountain Independence Tension Inheritance Bond Grow Up Shared Warn Grow Old

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“The American flag doesn't give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It's when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed fingers, where we see the stretch of red-blood lines of man that fought for this land. The purity of white stripes that strips our sins, and the stars of Abraham's covenant, broad in a midnight blue sky. The rights our forefathers established. As it waves high in the currents of freedom, where the Torch of Liberty shines over the sea, does she give meaning to unity. When we strive as one nation, or when it drops half-mast, to a fallen soldier.”

“Richard Wright and his Negro intellectual colleagues never realized the plain truth that no one in the United States understood the revolutionary potential of the Negro better than the Negro's white radical allies. They understood it instinctively, and revolutionary theory had little to do with it. What Wright could not see was that what the Negro's allies feared most of all was that this sleeping, dream-walking black giant might wake up and direct the revolution all by himself, relegating his white allies to a humiliating second-class status. The negro's allies were not about to tell the Negro anything that might place him on the path to greater power and independence in the revolutionary movement than they themselves had. The rules of the power game meant that unless the American Negro taught himself the profound implications of his own revolutionary significance in America, it would never be taught to him by anybody else. Unless the Negro intellectuals understood that in pursuit of this self-understanding, they would have to make their own rules, by and for themselves, nationalism would forever remain--as it was for Wright-- "a bewildering and vexing question.”

Culture Race Class Self Awareness Independence Nationalism Marxism Independent Thought Self Understanding Race In America Intellectuals Black Americans Black Intellectuals Culture And Imperialism

Author:Harold Cruse

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