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" Quotes and Sayings About hood

I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.

All Women Childhood Sisters Surrounded
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Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

Big BigTime Childhood Coming
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I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

Adulthood Care Consequences Defining
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

Affection City Enjoy Feel
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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Act Clear Desire Except
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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

Believe In The Brotherhood
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.

The America Negro Has
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Childhood Immortality Life Our
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

Nas
Because Daughters Fatherhood Help
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From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
Childhood Clergy Prospect Hung
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I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

Share Part Life People
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I was blessed with my career. I passionately love acting. And it's given me a good livelihood.

Acting Blessed Career Good
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There's a store in my neighborhood called Futon World. I like that name, 'Futon World.' Makes me think of a magical place that gets less and less comfortable over time.

Comfortable Gets Less Like
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Ojukwu is a great man, he died but his manhood lives on.

Ojukwu Manhood Lives Great man
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It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.

Better Better Chance Care Chance
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Falsehood Wise Man Trust
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To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

Antiquity Celebrated Childhood Continue
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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

Always Baptist Growing Hood
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Sometimes The Strength Motherhood
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

Motherhood So Sentimentalised Romanticism
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
Been Christmas Hood Movie
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

Central Did Enough Grew
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Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

Forget Going Important Important Things
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I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.

Happy Childhood Acceptance Community
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Manhood Sensitivity
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I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.

Ain't Going Sit Here
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The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

Absolute Certainties Childhood Craving
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While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.

While The Majority My
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.

Church Entertainment Expression Growing
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All across this world, especially within the African diaspora, we feel like there is a constant devaluing of our culture and our livelihood.

African Dispora Feel There
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My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.

My Father Raised Me
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In Brooklyn, all the kids call me the 'Willy Wonka of the Hood.'

In Brooklyn All The
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A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Nation Afraid Judge Truth
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The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten. I have this expression on my face - it's not a smile, it's not a frown. I swear to you, that's the girl who wakes up in the morning and who looks around her house and her life saying, 'I cannot believe how God has blessed me.'

Around Believe Blessed Cannot
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I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.

Changed How Me Must
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Childhood Genius Recalled Will
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Almighty God, thee only have I; thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does!

Almighty God Sheerest Fate
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I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.

Mourn Childhood Including Lost
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“No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.”
Matter Happened Keep Childhood
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Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency.

Deprive Livelihood Sinful Someone
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Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.

Manhood Care Family Able
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Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

Childhood Early EarlyChildhood Education
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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Anything Ever Language Learn
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If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

Brotherhood Children Garden Globe
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

Change Falling Falling In Love Go
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Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

Childhood Kingdom Dies
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Age Arbitrary Childhood False
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I am forever living in my childhood.

Am Childhood Forever I Am
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There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

Against Age Childhood Children
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Education is a liberator – the education of one person has the power to change outcomes in a village. Educated people who are successful make success accessible in unlikely neighborhoods.

Education Liberator Person Power
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