"Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks."

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Source : "Kennedy Mulls Meaning of Being Branded a 'Sellout'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 9, 2008.

Randall Kennedy

#Loyalty Quotes #Successful Quotes #Community Quotes

“All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.”
“Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.”
“I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.”
“Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.”

Source : Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.22, Black Irish Entertainment LLC
“Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.”
“Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.”

Source : "From the TV sofa to the dugout: Alan Shearer plots grand return". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.
“The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.”
“I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.”

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