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I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to… — Master P
I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know. — Muhammad Ali
Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Personally, I wouldn't wait around for someone to tell you you're good enough before you make your own comics. Just make them, always try to… — Unknown Author
It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try… — Charles Kettering
I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I… — Lucille Clifton
We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities,… — Maxine Hong Kingston
All I was trying to do was get home from work. — Rosa Parks
As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when… — Ned Rorem
Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for homosexuality is a… — Sarah Schulman
We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk. — Andrew Young
I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need. — Susan Sarandon
I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I… — Martin Sheen
Never try to have the last word. You might get it. — Robert A. Heinlein
So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure. — Gavin DeGraw
Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier. — Bruce Springsteen
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16 years old, we… — John Lewis
I'm tugging at my hair. I'm pulling at my clothes. I'm trying to keep my cool, I know it shows. I'm staring at my feet.… — Avril Lavigne
I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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