As fantastical as America’s space ambitions might have seemed, sending a man into space was starting to feel like a straightforward task compared to putting black and white students together in the same Virginia classrooms. -- Margot Lee Shetterly

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You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out.

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That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars, and whether they had one, or not, upon thars. -- Dr. Seuss

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I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. -Clint Eastwood

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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.

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Talent is nothing without persistence. — Dean Crawford

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As women must be more empowered at work, men must be more empowered at home. -- Sheryl Sandberg

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It wasn’t northern agitators who pushed Negroes to question their country, as so many southern whites wanted to believe. It was their own pride, their patriotism, their deep and abiding belief in the possibility of democracy that inspired the Negro people. And why not? Who knew American democracy more intimately than the Negro people? They knew democracy’s every virtue, vice, and shortcoming, its voice and contour, by its profound and persistent absence in their lives. The failure to secure the blessings of democracy was the feature that most defined their existence in America. Every Sunday they made their way to their sanctuaries and fervently prayed to the Lord to send them a sign that democracy would come to them. -- Margot Lee Shetterly

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Like and equal are not the same thing at all! -- Madeleine L'Engle

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