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I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.

Benjamin E. Mays

In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.
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Art Boys Halfway Normal White
[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.
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Believe May Today Tomorrow
Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.
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Born Men Strive
You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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Ability Apply Yourself
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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Communication Honest Integrity
He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.
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Men Race Running
The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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Center Circumstances Drawn Set
If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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Call Communication Hardly
It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
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Capture Disaster Ideals
I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS

Believe Life Unique
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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Life Lows Tragedy
A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
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Believe Children Inspirational
It isn’t more light we need, it isn’t more truth, and it isn’t more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.
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God Light Spiritual
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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Goal Lying Weight Loss
It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
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Goal Life Reaching Stars
For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.
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Believe People White

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