"All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society."

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Source : Alexander Crummell, John R. Oldfield, Southern Texts Society (1995). “Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South”, p.146, University of Virginia Press

Alexander Crummell

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“Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.”
“Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.”
“All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.”
“We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.”
“the 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value.”
“Yoga teaches us that we can have whatever we may want in life if we are willing to provide it for others first.”
“I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.”
“Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see”

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