"The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence."
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"Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense."
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"I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues of self-love, self-respect and self-regard are preconditions for human agency and especially black agency, given the fact that we have been and are such a hated and despised people."
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"Hatha yoga is a powerful tool for self-transformation. It asks us to bring our attention to our breath, which helps us to still the fluctuations of the mind and be more present in the unfolding of each moment."
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"You should never give up your inner self."
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"Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength."
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"I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion."
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"Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years."
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"Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming."
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"It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail."
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"Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough."
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"No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid."
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"Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it is cocksure, vague and self-contradictory. The first step towards philosophy consists in becoming aware of these defects, not in order to rest content with a lazy scepticism, but in order to substitute an amended kind of knowledge which shall be tentative, precise and self-consistent."
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"Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable in the vastness of cosmic processes; if there is no superhuman purpose, and no hope of ultimate salvation, it is better to know and acknowledge this truth than to endeavor, in futile self-assertion, to order the universe to be what we find comfortable."
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"Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others."
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"And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves."
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"Everything about acting is a challenge. I'm self-conscious. You couldn't do anything to cause me to be more self-conscious than to stick a camera in my face and have 60 people standing behind it, waiting for me to perform."
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"Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch."
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"Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him."
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"Le moi est ha|«s sable. The self is hateful."
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