"Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive."

-- Jayson Blair

#Self Quotes #Racism Quotes #Persons Quotes

“It's hard to get lice out of your head, and there's no easy cure for shaking off campaign-based thinking, either.”
“Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.”
“I sleep - laying down, not on the ceiling. Nothing about my life is crazy. I fly a lot, I travel a lot. I eat and sleep like everyone else.”
“Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.'' Okay, she wasn't a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.”
“He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.”
“You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate.”
“I believe hip hop is being used in some mass way to influence underachievement.”
“I was nothing more than a thug with Tolstoy in my pocket.”

Source : David Adams Richards (2002). “Mercy Among the Children: A Novel”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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