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But I was doing pretty well for myself in the streets, so going back to school was the last thing on my mind. So I didn’t go. I think they call that a gap year.
“Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
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“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
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“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean
But I shall be good health to you nonetheless
And filter and fibre your blood.”
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If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean
But I shall be good health to you nonetheless
And filter and fibre your blood.”
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“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
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“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ”
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