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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

Ralph Ellison

Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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Faces Harsh Injustice Reveal Seen Show Visible
Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
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Believe Confidence Inspirational Power Trust
The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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Discover Found Miracle Moral Possibility Shine World
…and yet I am what they think I am.
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Believe Dream Good Inspiration One Liner Positive Success Thinking
Power, for the writer….lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.
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Ability Humanity Little Lying Power Reveal Writer
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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Caring Cop Gun Poet Thought Trigger Word
That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.
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Good Time Identity Memories Memory Odds Punctual Remember
It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Change Commitment Committed Deep Grow Grows
I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Black History Fame Fiber Invisible Life Luck Men People Substance
Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life’s crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.
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Art Chart Current Life Man Philosophy Reduce Sea
Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.” Stephen Covey “It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Act Circle Commitment Involvement Study Work
I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
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Hate Honest Life Satisfied Success Try Work
In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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Detached Explore Journey Memories Order Travel
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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Difficult Fiction Good Made Real Reality
You start Saul, and end up Paul,’ my grandfather had often said. ‘When you’re a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.
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Experience Grandfather Mind Side Start Trying Young
My hole is warm and full of light.
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Holes Life Light One Liner Positive Warm Women

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