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Today, people struggle to find what’s real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.

People Real What Today
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A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Bed Night Success Want
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Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.

What You Understand Criticize
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Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.

Know Enough Thing Mean
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I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn’t allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.

Rule Think Done Ever
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You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.

Time Same Wise Never
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When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it – don’t back down and don’t give up – then you’re going to mystify a lot of folks.

Feel Gut Down When
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I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Beauty Take Each About
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There is no equality. The only thing people all have in common is that they are all going to die.

Die Going Common People
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DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.

Destiny Feeling Know Have
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Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane...
Head Full Idea Insane
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A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Hero Come Freedom Understand
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Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

Memory Never Just What
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Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

Find Where Hard Take
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Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
Mean Death Long Fast
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At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Life Stage Place Time
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It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

Hard May Bring What
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One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

Writer Thing Methodical You
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Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

Defend People Belief Mistake
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One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

Respect Form Sincere Say
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We are all damaged. We have all been hurt. We have all had to learn painful lessons. We are all recovering from some mistake, loss, betrayal, abuse, injustice or misfortune. All of life is a process of recovery that never ends. We each must find ways to accept and move through the pain and to pick ourselves back up. For each pang of grief, depression, doubt or despair there is an inverse toward renewal coming to you in time. Each tragedy is an announcement that some good will indeed come in time. Be patient with yourself.

Hurt Learn Lesson Damage
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The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.

Joy Life Feel Hope
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Who were you before the world told you what you were not?

World What You Who
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Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

Think Know Most Even
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The storm is out there and every one of us must eventually face the storm. When the storm comes, pray that it will shake you to your roots and break you wide-open. Being broken open by the storm is your only hope. When you are broken open you get to discover for the first time what is inside you. Some people never get to see what is inside them; what beauty, what strength, what truth and love. They were never broken open by the storm. So, don't run from your pain — run into your pain. Let life's storm shatter you.

Storm Face Every There
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Some people have abusive, negative, controlling tendencies in their blood; they are wired for havoc, bickering and deception.

Some People Are Wired
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Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Good Much Bad Manner
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If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.

Like Other Certain Look
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A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

Conviction Even Great Kindness
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Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Action Ambition Does Fantasy
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Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

Between Birth Death Move
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Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

Consideration Considerations Deliver Method
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Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Consumed Death Desire Great
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Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Accumulate Conception Education Filling
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Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

Across Carry Emotion Intelligence
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In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

Been Being Greater Human
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He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

Agreed Conversation He Must
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I'm Nigerian. I'm African. I have a lot to say. Apart from what I say, though, is the feeling. People can relate to that feeling. It's a reciprocal relationship. They feed off me and I feed off them.

African Apart Feed Feeling
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Most Americans don't even understand what I'm saying in my records, but they pick up on the vibe, the vibration.

American Even Most Pick
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I don't plan stuff. I don't believe in planning. I just believe in doing your best at what you do best at all times and everything else is everything else. Everything else is a plus.

Believe Best Doing Else
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When something happens in Africa, an artist will sing about it and stuff. We have all the records; we have everything. Free Mandela records and all that.

About Africa Artist Everything
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To be honest I don't really feel like I'm a part of the industry. I don't get awards because the powers that be don't really like me. I'm not like everyone else, I won't do what everyone else does.

Awards Because Does Else
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Going onstage - that's my joy. You know like when you're in school and you're just waiting for the bell to go off so you can leave the class and go and play outside? That's me in life.

Bell Class Going Joy
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I would find myself being inspired by things that I've heard as a kid: Nigerian music or African music, some French music or some Jamaican music. When it's time for music to be made, it's almost like my ancestors just come into me and then it's them.

African Almost Ancestors Being
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Patience is nobler motion than any deed.

Deed Than Motion Any
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Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues would weaken her best security.

Best Virtue Divest Wish
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Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar.

Bar Guilty God Plead
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Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.

Lens Nature Soul Angel
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We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.

Learn Better Worth Wealth
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Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.

Halt Aid Power Mind
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