Death Quotes

Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves

by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam

the door on potential opportunities.

We go through life walking a tightrope

to prevent too much disillusionment.

If I’m gonna tell a real story,

I’m gonna start with my own life.

Follow your instincts.

That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

I cannot salute the flag;

I know that I am a black man in a white world.

In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919,

I know that I never had it made.

Education is the key to unlock

the golden door of freedom.

You CAN have it all.

You just can't have it all at once.

Truth is by nature self

evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

The ultimate aim of the ego

is not to see something,

but to be something

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

Bad times have a scientific value.

These are occasions a good,

learner would not miss.

Man was made at the end of the week's work,

when God was tired.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood

if you’re going to innovate.

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We are rich only through what we give,

and poor only through what we refuse.

It is curious that physical courage

should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

The rich invest in time,

the poor invest in money.

Dreams aren’t just for sleeping.