"Selfishness is the most constant of human motives.……" — Charles W. Chesnutt

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• Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be… — Marcus Aurelius
• A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and… — Pearl Bailey
• A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. — Pearl Bailey
• Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
• One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much… — Ella Baker
• The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains. — Josephine Baker
• The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. — James A. Baldwin
• I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So… — James A. Baldwin
• Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. — James A. Baldwin
• To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all… — James A. Baldwin
• To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to… — James A. Baldwin

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