"We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld."

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Source : John H. McWhorter (2000). “Losing the Race: Self-sabotage in Black America”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

John H. McWhorter

#Children Quotes #Honesty Quotes #Behave Quotes

“I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.”
“When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.”
“Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.”
“There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?”
“There is a difference between looking all right in a shirt and taking the shirt off. The older that us dudes get, the more the paunch has to be worked on. It's hard.”
“Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.”

Source : "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.
“Women never really care to face the truth when their hearts are involved.”
“After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.”

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