Shobhan
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"About midway through. By now one thing is particularly evident, Malcolm had a tendency to self-aggrandise, and speak in hyperboles about himself. His time in Harlem as a hustler was briefer than an average black person at the time, but if you’re not mindful of the time and space, you might start believing everything he says. While it’s true that he did all kinds of hustle, he didn’t stay long enough in any." — 10 hours, 57 min ago
"About midway through. By now one thing is particularly evident, Malcolm had a tendency to self-aggrandise, and speak in hyperboles about himself. His time in Harlem as a hustler was briefer than an average black person at the time, but if you’re not mindful of the time and space, you might start believing everything he says. While it’s true that he did all kinds of hustle, he didn’t stay long enough in any." — 10 hours, 57 min ago
“I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave's a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that's what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.”
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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― The White Album
― The White Album
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