"I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him agesof education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read."

-- Frances Harper

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“From a young age I had learned to get over--to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve.”

Source : Piper Kerman (2010). “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison”, p.228, Spiegel & Grau
“Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.”
“If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows.”
“I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.”
“Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.”
“Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing.”
“Even people who loved our music really didn't know anything about us. We were never glamorous. We were never a phenomenon.”
“Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive. When I was younger, based was a negative term that meant like dopehead, or basehead. People used to make fun of me. They was like, "You're based." They'd use it as a negative. And what I did was turn that negative into a positive. I started embracing it like, "Yeah, I'm based." I made it mine. I embedded it in my head. Based is positive.”

Source : "Lil B Talks Getting Sucker Punched, Gay Rumors, & Drake Envy". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 10, 2010.

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