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.
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.
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.
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