"Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live."

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Source : Julius Lester (2008). “Guardian”, Amistad

Julius Lester

#Live Life Quotes #Should Quotes #Live Your Own Life Quotes

“As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer.”
“We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.”
“I felt that I really couldn't be creative with opera. You're supposed to sound this way here. You're supposed to crescendo here. You're supposed to do that. I had no sense of identity while singing that kind of music.”

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“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
“No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.”
“Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.”
“I think self-portraits are very difficult. Iâ€™ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light happened to be available. Iâ€™d want it to be very graphic â€“ about darkness and light. No one else should be there, but Iâ€™m scared to do it by myself. Iâ€™ve been thinking about it for a long time. The whole idea of a self-portrait is strange. Iâ€™m so strongly linked to how I see through the camera that to get to the other side of it would be difficult. It would be as if I were taking a photograph in the dark.”
“Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?”

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