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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

I look upon another’s insistence on the merits of his or her life – duties, intellect, accomplishment – and see that most of it is nonsense.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.