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Be Grateful For Good Breaks And Kind Favors But Don't Count On Them.

You Are In Charge Of Your Own Attitude Whatever Others Do Or Circumstances You Face. The Only Person You Can Control Is Yourself...worry More About Your Attitude Than Your Aptitude Or Lineage.

I Feel Very Lucky To Have Grown Up Having Interaction With Adults Who Were Making Change But Who Were Far From Perfect Beings. That Feeling Of Not Being Paralyzed By Your Incredible Inadequacy As A Human Being, Which I Feel Every Day, Is A Part Of The Legacy That I've Gotten From So Many Of The Adult Elders.

When I Fight About What Is Going On In The Neighborhood, Or When I Fight About What Is Happening To Other People’s Children, I’m Doing That Because I Want To Leave A Community And A World That Is Better Than The One I Found.

If It's Wrong For 13-year-old Inner-city Girls To Have Babies Without The Benefit Of Marriage, It's Wrong For Rich Celebrities, And We Ought To Stop Putting Them On The Cover Of People Magazine.