Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.

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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ― George Bernard Shaw

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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness. ― Booker T. Washington

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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it. ― Booker T. Washington

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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed. ― Booker T. Washington

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I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ― Booker T. Washington

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ― George Bernard Shaw

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They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

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