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How many crossroads are you allowed to have in life? I seem to have a lot of crossroads. I think maybe I crossed back across the same road too often.

Crossroad Allowed Life Think
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids – we really run the gamut.

Unique Style Black Braid
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There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Except Realization Accomplished Something
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Nothing Divide Small Jobs
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Don’t you want to know what’s real and what’s not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it’s almost like, what’s real and what’s not?

Remember War Scared Real
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There are times you can’t really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

Sweet Mountain Valley Punch
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What would your life be like if you found out you had 3 weeks left? And you know that you had not begun to live? And you had all these dreams and all these possibilities. And all these things you wanted to do and things you wanted to say and now time’s up?

Live Dreams Possibilities Time
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Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Fundamentally Wrong Charity Poverty
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I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It’s tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.

Enjoy Mood Work Time
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Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Means Right When Looking
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Frightful Things Eyes Goal
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The females don’t respect themselves; they only think materialistically. They want money, but they don’t think, I’m gonna get this money on my own, they think, I’m gonna get money from this guy.

Female Respect Materialistically Guy
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I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the ’80s. When it’s that close to you, you can’t really deny it, and you can’t run from it.

Relatives Friends Birthday Deny
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Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Directly Providing Service Comes
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Having a belief in God, being able to find joy, despite your circumstances or put yourself outside of yourself, and stop looking inwards and look outwards a little bit really helps to carry through tough times. Giving makes you feel better.

Belief Tough Outwards Joy
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I’ve loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.

Race Regularly Watch Father
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The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Bothers Making Time Better
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Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

BUNK SIck Excercise Healthy
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There’s no way I can represent for everyone. I can’t represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It’s important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can’t take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

Women People Celebrity Pressure
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There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Lowest Possible Highest Wages
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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Idealist Person Prosperous Helps
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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Grieves Marching Onward Setbacks
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You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Men Together Living Must
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Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

Whether Think Usually Right
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Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
Cutting Shaving Business Competition
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Man World Reserve Experience
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Follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Follow Heart Intuition Become
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What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Capacity Resources Some About
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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Money Betterment Life Capital
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We should think twice before washing our dirty linen before the world. It doesn’t just reduce our opponents. It also reduces us to the world.

World Reduce Dirty Twice
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Its mental slavery to allow foreign media dictate what we think about Nigeria & her institutions. They cant love Nigeria more than Nigerians

Mental Media Dictate Love
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So sad that in Nigeria, very few want to participate in revenue generation yet everyone wants to participate in revenue allocation.

Sad Few Revenue Everyone
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The problem with Nigeria isn’t people, its the structure! If we don’t fix our structure, even an angel will have challenges leading Nigeria.

Fix People Problem Leading
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Real reading is a lonely activity.

Real Reading Lonely Activity
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Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

Beautiful Great Magic Potential
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You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

Allow Another Dream Everybody
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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Attention Away Both Common
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Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

Always Beautiful Because Best
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When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

Begin Create Imagine Live
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Adversity Always Bit Bore
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The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.

Absolute Abyss Bottom Everything
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I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

Always Been Began Evolved
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I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

Good Hearing People Reason
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Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Artists Deal Dream Dreaming
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When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

Best Call Higher Like
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Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

Hopeless Romantic Love Time
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At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

Conditioned Essential Everybody Happened
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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Courage Follow Heart Intuition
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I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.

Couple Seem Really Records
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I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

Smoke Married Work Drink
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