

“When it comes time to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were ever here.”
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“The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.”
― The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
― The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

“...I found myself surrounded by people--starting with my mom, grandparents, uncles, and aunts, and leading to a string of wonderful role models and mentors--who kept pushing me to see more than what was directly in front of me, to see the boundless possibilities of the wider world and the unexplored possibilities within myself. People who taught me that no accident of birth--not being black or relatively poor, being from Baltimore or the Bronx or fatherless--would ever define or limit me.”
― The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
― The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

“Life’s impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It’s what shapes our time here. It’s what makes it so important that not a single moment be wasted.”
― The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
― The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

“Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us or our expectations. I mean others' expectations that you take on as your own. I realize how difficult it is to seperate the two. The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.”
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