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#1

“luck runs out but blessings never do!”
― E. Lynn Harris, Invisible Life

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#2

“my heart knows who i am and who i'll turn out to be!”
― E. Lynn Harris, Invisible Life

26 likes

#3

“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
― Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems

1381 likes

#4

“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks

tags: humanity, understanding, unity

1089 likes

#5

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

2575 likes

#6

“I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane”
― Wallace Thurman, Infants of the Spring

tags: friendship, humor, insanity

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#7

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight

3810 likes

#8

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

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#9

“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”
― Alex Haley

tags: family

93 likes

#10

“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ”
― Ernest Gaines

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#11

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
― Oprah Winfrey

tags: experience, inspirational, pain, wisdom, wounds

6852 likes

#12

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

43891 likes

#13

“And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.”
― Wynton Marsalis, To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road

tags: jazz, wynton-marsalis

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#14

“I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying

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#15

“You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, Conversations with Ernest Gaines

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#16

“Stop worrying about what everyone else thinks. Start living for you and what makes you happy, because that's what everyone else is gonna do.”
― Carl Weber, The Man in 3B

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#17

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

3491 likes

#18

“Never allow someone to ignore you in public and fuck you in private.”
― Tracee Boyd, Simon Says

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#19

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

2660 likes

#20

“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
― Joy Williams

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#21

“You will always fine jealous people.They're the ones promoting you.”
― Tyler Perry

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#22

“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

tags: age, exercise, family, grandmothers, grandparents, humor, walking

2444 likes

#23

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: inspiration

4197 likes

#24

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
― Maya Angelou

4753 likes

#25

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

130138 likes

#26

“I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive

1817 likes

#27

“I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

tags: life, life-experience

495 likes

#28

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

tags: inspirational

8059 likes

#29

“I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.”
― Mae West

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#30

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: inspiration

8188 likes

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