I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it. - Wally Amos

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I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop. ― Libba Bray

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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense. - Ida B. Wells

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Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri

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Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

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Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so. - Ida B. Wells

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If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. - Ida B. Wells

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We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets. ― Marilyn Monroe

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A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. ― Marilyn Monroe

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You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom. ― Roz Inga

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