"I think that somehow, we learn who..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
More by Eleanor Roosevelt
“There is nothing to regret, either for those who go, or for those who stay behind — only an inheritance of good accomplishment to be lived up to by those who carry a loving memory in their hearts.”
“Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.”
“Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.”
More on Self Discovery
“What are we? Young or new? We must be something.”
“We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.”
“Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.”
More on Identity
“I'm Kan, the Louis Vouitton don / Bought my mom purse, now she Louis Vuitton mom / Still might throw on a little low arm they want me to stop go on gon / They don't want me to shop and me spending that hard / Oh My God is that a Black card / I turned around and replied why yes, but I prefer the term African American Express”
“It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22 million Afro-Americans don't seek either separation or integration. They seek recognition and respect as human beings.”
“I am not a human being, I am dynamite.”