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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. —THOMAS JEFFERSON
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“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
“This world is a great busy thoroughfare,
To succeed you must elbow your way,
If you wait for success to come to you,
You'll wait there and die in dismay.”
― Poetic Pearls
To succeed you must elbow your way,
If you wait for success to come to you,
You'll wait there and die in dismay.”
― Poetic Pearls
“the betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
“Live so that the world will need you,
Daily tread the path of light,
Keep a bag of sunshine with you,
Be a jewel pure and bright.”
― Poetic Pearls
Daily tread the path of light,
Keep a bag of sunshine with you,
Be a jewel pure and bright.”
― Poetic Pearls
“Writing is a way of creating order out of chaos, of taking charge of one's own story, being the sovereign of the self by pushing back against received knowledge and guarding the sanctity of the dwelling place of the imagination, that place of first permission.”
― The House of Being
― The House of Being
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