"If you're not getting the things you want, need or desire, it's because you have not accepted that you can have them."

-- Della Reese

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“You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.”
“I think we all want to be Gisele BÃ¼ndchen. Whether it inspires. Not only for her beauty. Successful she is, is a businesswoman, is an activist, a good mother is a strong woman and a good example to all the powerful women . Everybody wants to know what she does or says, rather than what she wears.”
“One of the things I recognized early on, doing whatever studies of black history I have, is that even though black folks were transported as slaves, into servitude, when they were carried out of Africa they left empty-handed, but they didn't leave empty-headed. They carried with them the culture they knew, the culture they had, and that culture reconstituted itself in all the places they went.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.”
“Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end”
“When the people who are in power want to ... create an image to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They'll take a person who's a victim of the crime, and make it appear he's the criminal, and they'll take the criminal and make it appear that he's the victim of the crime.”

Source : Malcolm X's speech at the Oxford Union debate (December 3, 1964) as quoted in Saladin Ambar "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era" (p. 171), 2013.
“You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.”
“I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.”

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