"We can make America what America must become."

-- James A. Baldwin

#America Quotes

“You have infinite value and worth! You already know you have strengths and inner resources. But you have even more strengths and resources that you are not yet fully aware of, and they will enhance your life as you become more aware of them. There are many more strengths and inner resources that you can gain and build up from now on.”

Source : Zelig Pliskin (2006). “Building your self-image: and the self-image of others”
“Those who wash regularly should not stoop to democracy.”
“I am young, but I have been through a lot.”
“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”
“The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”
“We have got to use every opportunity to improve individually so we can improve collectively.”
“I can't hang out as loose as I used to, but I can still go down Jefferson Avenue and look in the faces of winos, pimps and junkies, all the things I'm made of.”

Source : FaceBook post by Rick James from Sep 27, 2013

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