"There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group."

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William Julius Wilson

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“You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.”
“I can't count how many goalposts I've hit!”
“This planet below you is our campsite, and you know of no other campground.”
“Possessions are a way of turning money into problems.”
“What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.”
“A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found in the Introduction. I learned them as if they were so many poems. I used to keep this old volume close to my pillow; and I amused myself when I awoke in the morning by reciting its jingling contrasts of iambic and trochaic and dactylic metre, and thinking what a charming occupation it must be to "make up" verses.”
“The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.”
“I make a project and I panic. Which is good, it can be a method. First, panic. Second, conquer panic by working. Third, find ways to solve your doubts.”

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