Sons are born to make their fathers better men.― Mekael Shane

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She always wanted to believe in things.

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When children attend schools that place a greater value in discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prisons. — Angela Davis

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I knew then that I must survive for something more than survival's sake. I must survive for you. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I think of your grandmother calling me and noting how you were growing tall and would one day try to “test me.” And I said to her that I would regard that day, should it come, as the total failure of fatherhood because if all I had over you were my hands, then I really had nothing at all. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific. ― Lily Tomlin

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Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that? ― Sidney Sheldon

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I wanted to see what type of trees is growing in Marcy Projects, what type of water Jay Z was drinking. – DJ Khaled

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I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything. ― Sebastian Horsley

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I was, you know, a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day.

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