"Whats up with your motto? Will you lead? Will you follow?"

-- Nas

“The mercantile business did not suit me”
“I don't always expect good from people. I always expect the bad and I am pleasantly surprised when they are nice.”
“Antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.”
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.”

Source : "1001 Affirmations" - by Herbert P. Windschitl - Poetry, 2003.
“American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.”
“The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.”
“Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.”
“The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on oneâ€™s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential â€œyouâ€ which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom youâ€™ve impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your â€œfeeling.â€”

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