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If I'm going to be pushed off the sidewalk, I might as well step on off. You know what I mean? Stop pretending something good was waiting around the corner and be what everybody expected me to be, which was another throwaway dude. --Lil J
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People who want to hate you can find something in you they don't like. They have a talent for doing that.
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Love came easy, but it just wasn't for me. It flew away like swallows on a summer evening. Love sang softly, but it just wasn't to me. Was I a fool to give my love, to give my soul, and more away? My heart aches with longing, cries each night, As I just fall apart. --Carmen, singing "Love Has Flown Away"
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Each of us is born with a history already in place
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When Miss O'Brien looked at me... what did she see that caused her to turn away? What did she see?
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She is a moron and too dumb to menstruate straight.
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Sometimes everybody touches in the dark. You touch to see what you can stand to touch, what you can to feel with your fingers probing parts you never though you could probably probe" - Gray"
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You're not getting in anything, so between us it's going to be outcest, and that's just another word for friendship. --Jocelyn Lawson
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Maybe being loved wasn't enough; maybe there was something else you needed not to get in trouble.
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Let me think Thinking is all I have If wisdom is a pretense Then let me pretend to be wise
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Go. Think. Turn black into white. Night into day. I am tired of thinking. I know where it will lead me and I don't Want to be there. Go love. Do your thinking.
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The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?
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Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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L)ife is like walking between two tall buildings on a tightrope. For some, the rope is wide enough and the walk is easy. For others, it's narrow and hard and maybe there's a strong wind blowing through their days
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But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.
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What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.
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People want to look at you and see your whole future laid out the way they know it, and I was saying that didn't happen. People aren't born with I'M GREAT! flashing on their foreheads.
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All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked upon as having importance were white men. I didn't mind that they were men, or even white men. What I did mind was that being white seemed to play so important a part in the assigning of values.
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La Misma ola vagabunda que te lleva te devuelva.
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Life laughs at me now, Sad, forsaken clown. Dreams crumble and fall. They die silently. Where is there to turn to? Where can I find mercy? Love is what I needed, All I wanted from this life. --Carmen, singing "Destiny Theme"
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Walter Dean Myers |
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If I'm going to have a fight I got to see the win in it so I'll know what I'm fighting for.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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I wanted to love my father. I wanted to, but I didn't. Sometimes I didn't even like him. he hadn't been a guy you could really get next to, because in a way he was never where you thought he was.
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Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. It is a strange movie with no plot and no beginning. The movie is in black and white, and grainy. Sometimes the camera moves in so close that you can't tell what is going on and you just listen to the sounds and guess.
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I am too real not to know that real will kill me I am too street not to know what the streets hold for me
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Walter Dean Myers |
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Sometimes, when things look terrible...you just need to find the right move to turn the whole game around. When you find it you feel great.
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You are not in Disneyland," he said. "The little people you see running around over here are not Mouseketeers. Some of them are friendly, and some of them have a strong desire to kill you. If you remember that, and manage to kill them before they kill you, then you have a good chance of getting through your year of service here."
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I mean, if you think about doing things to people like that, if you think about it too much, it gets all up in you and you can't control it after a while. Then they really got you.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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Nothing sounds better than being away from this mess. Nothing sounds better right now than getting higher than the hole I'm in.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. It is a strange movie with no plot and no beginning. The movie is in black and white, and grainy.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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wqty khh byrwn z zndn hsty tSwr mrdn zndny h r hm nmy khny. fqT fkhr my khny an h Hbs shn r my khshnd w b`d hm azd my shwnd. wly khyly h an tw tlf my shwnd. b`Dy wqt h bh dst khwdshn w b`Dy wqt h hm bh dst zndny hy dygr. b`Dy h hm khh mthl mn mryD w z zndgy shn syr my shwnd. my fhmy chh my gwym?
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twy zndn khh bwdm, fhmydm drm khwdm r gwl my znm; chwn tmm `mrm bh Hrf zdn gdhshth. ykh rwz bh khwdm my gwym khh byrwn my rwm w z nw shrw` my khnm. rwz b`d hm my gwym khh my khwhm ykh khry khnm t pwldr shwm. wly wqty khh azd my shwm w byrwn my aym, my bynm khh mn hmn khrb hstm w dny hm frqy nkhrdh. my fhmy chh my gwym?
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fkhr my khnm bh chyzy Htyj drm t bh an ftkhr khnm. dwst drm bh ayynh ngh khnm w bh chyzy khh my bynm Htrm bgdhrm. yn khr, Htrm bh khwdm st.
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rwyhy zndn bry dwbr shrw` khrdn w khwshbkht shdn. my dny, twy zndn tmm rwyh m w gry drd; gr yn tfq byftd y gr btwny z nw shrw` khny...
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First, people tolerate evil because they see some benefit to themselves,' he said. 'Then, they feed it in hope that it will turn into something else. Then, they appease it in hope that it will not turn against them. Then, they respect it because they fear it. Finally, someone has to step up and stamp it out! (...)
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Things that matter in the morning somehow don't matter in the afternoon.
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I've always found old bookstores exciting. Whenever I'm in a city that's new to me, I immedicately look through the telephone directory for BOOKS, USED AND RARE. Book dealers send me their catalogs, and I read them as carefully as I would a letter from an old friend, never knowing what treasure I might find. Sometimes the catalogs contain printed material other than books, such as old photographs, newspapers, pamphlets, postcards, and lette..
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pamphlets
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the ideas I found in books helped me imagine a life I wanted to live.
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It's hard to be brave when you can stumble across a world of hurt around any corner.
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In a sane world, we would be heroes. Teachers would applaud as we walked into the school. There is the smart one, the one who wants to be a writer. And there is the runner.
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Yeah, it's hard, baby It's hard right down to the bone I said Oh, it's hard baby It's hard right down to the very bone It's hard when you're a woman And you find yourself all alone I've been flapping and scrapping And running from door to door You know I've been flapping and scrapping, honey Running from door to door
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Look to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.
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When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.
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That night the mosquitoes ate us up. I had bites all over my body. Back home I thought mosquitoes never bit black people. Not as much as they bit white people, anyway. Maybe Vietnamese mosquitoes just bit blacks and whites and didn't bite Asians.
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Actually, I liked the principal's office. It was interesting to see the teachers come and go, talking about what they would have for lunch or what they had done the night before just as if they were normal people. I
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