"We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago."

-- Henry Hampton

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“If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your future with hope. Only bad things happened to you in the past, and only bad things will happen to you in the future.”
“I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.”
“A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away”

Source : Sri Aurobindo (2016). “‌‌Bases of Yoga: Art of living”, p.3, editionNEXT.com
“The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.”
“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. Â This is the true self. Â Every other identity is illusion. Â God's love for you and his choice of you constitute your worth. Â Accept that, and let it become the most important thing in your life.”
“Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.”
“Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.11, Univ of California Press
“To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - Farewell”

Source : R. M. Ballantyne (2016). “The Coral Island: Illustrated”, p.239, Jester House Publishing

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