"They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them."

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Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational Quotes #Wise Quotes #Respect Quotes

“I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.”

Source : Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.261, Univ of California Press
“We're always contradicting ourselves. We want people to tell us apart.... ...yet we don't want them to be able to. We want people to get to know us... ...but we also want them to keep their distance. We've always longed for someone to accept us... But we never believed there'd be anyone who would accept our twisted ways. That's why we'll stay locked up tight... ...in our own little private world... ...and throw away the key, so that no one can ever hurt us.”
“I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.”

Source : "The Definitive Imagined Emma Watson Commencement Speech" by Katie Calautti, www.mtv.com. May 26, 2014.
“Play with me and you play with fire.”

Source : "Song: 'Retreat!'". 2014.
“I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.”
“And why should we, of all people, expect the proud new developing nations to see the world precisely as we see it? Was any new nation ever more outspoken, independent and unaligned than the young America of Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln?”

Source : "The Conscience of a Liberal". Book by Chester Bowles, 1962.
“We have not received the Spirit of God because we believe, but that we may believe.”
“Change your story, change your power.”

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