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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. - Arthur Ashe

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. – Arthur Ashe

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We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless. . . . We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models. – Arthur Ashe

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Role models
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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it. – Arthur Ashe

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Fear
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. – Arthur Ashe

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Competition
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I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit. – Ida B. Wells

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Black History

The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise. – African Proverb

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Black History

The time is always right to do what is right. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Black History

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. – Billie Holiday

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Black History

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Beauty has a lot to do with character. – Kevyn Aucoin

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Beauty

I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family. – Doug E. Fresh

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relationship

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemens opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved. – William Blake

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respect

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. – Saint Bernard

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Faith