malcolm x quotes on racism

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It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. ~Joyce Maynard



Language is the dress of thought. ~Samuel Johnson



One is not born a woman, one becomes one. ~Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949



The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ~Max Stirner, The Ego and His Own



The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh



A good garden may have some weeds. ~Thomas Fuller



They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. ~Christian Bovee



To control your hormones is to control your life. ~Barry Sears



The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. ~Andre Gide, Journals, 1894



Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron



'Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



In summer, the song sings itself. ~William Carlos Williams



Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. ~Author Unknown Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. ~Author Unknown



Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please. ~Mark Twain



My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I "should" be doing. ~Lonzo Idolswine



Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. ~Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom, 1941



There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. ~Mark Twain



Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb