When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message... The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty....
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.
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