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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

by Trevor Noah

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The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood, #2)

by Ann Brashares

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“Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

tags: failure, fear, middle-age, perseverance

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“Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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“It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come. ”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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