"Identity has several parts, and the self needs to expand. Black youth should be encouraged to have as many parts or as rich an identity as possible. It's a form of allowing them to be curious about the world."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Darryl Pinckney

#Self Quotes #Black Youth Quotes #Identity Quotes

“They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.”
“Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.”
“To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.”
“We need to go inward instead of outward, and learn to trust our own inner guide, preserving our identity and finding the answers from within.”
“I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.”
“The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to life in my hands, I was hooked. It was a feeling I can't describe. I still get it every time I get into a race car.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There's always something that's going to kill us all. A few years ago, tomatoes were going to kill us and a few years before that it was spinach. The FDA is run by a 7-year-old kid that hates vegetables!”
“If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones.”

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