Abraham Lincoln Quotes
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow.
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There is something about poverty that smells like death.
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
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First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.
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I said, look, do you think you could bring Gerry through, and they said yeah, absolutely, they thought that. Joel was very keen to cast him. If all my music team were happy, I was happy.
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One is born to be a great dancer.
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Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.
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Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.
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That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.
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Remember your dream is your only scheme, so keep on pushing.
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The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat - & as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you - so don't play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr - accept the fact that you're a criminal & be prepared to act like one.
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the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.
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Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?
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My mom and my dad taught me the greatest gifts we have are our family, our health and the right to clean water and good land.
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When you come after Americans, we go after you. It may take time, but we have long memories, and our reach has no limit.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.
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The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.
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We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow.
