"If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth."

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Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

Jupiter Hammon

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“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”
“An actor always wants to sink his teeth into something.”

Source : "Aden Young discusses SundanceTV's 'Rectify'". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. April 1, 2014.
“To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.”
“You know when people say, 'How do you go from Kanye to Wiz Khalifa - that's a downgrade.' But the only question I can ask them is: 'Have you ever dated Kanye? Because I have, and believe me, I did not downgrade at all. Not in any aspect, at all.'”

Source : "Amber Rose Back With Kanye? Compares 'Ye To Wiz In Interview". KING Magazine Interview, www.mtv.com. May 11, 2011.
“I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them”
“Music is human vibration. It makes humans vibrate and takes them someplace else.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“It hurts, but that’s all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There’s only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run.”
“At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.”

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