"When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here."

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Source : Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.133, Spiegel & Grau

Wes Moore

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“If we don't give things a try, nothing will get off the ground.”
“When Negroes looked for the second phase, the realization of equality, they found that many of their white allies had quietly disappeared.... To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.”
“Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.”
“Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.”
“Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.”

Source : Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers
“But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.”
“I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“A life without love is like a year without spring.”

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