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Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.

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When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself i...more

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Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter th...more

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I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

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I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss

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When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

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To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.

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Few, if any, survive their teens.

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It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit quietly and listen to charges brought ...more

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Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted ...more

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It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.