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That's something - you laugh about Eminem... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy's for real, and I like his lyrics! ↗

— Alan Vega

#because #big #came #eminem #first

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#i #know #out #slave #things

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#ankle #chain #end #fastened #fellow

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#application #consists #done #greatness #his

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#cannot #happiness #man #misery #purchased

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#generally #sing #slaves #well #work

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath. ↗

— Brad Dourif

#floating #great #ocean #our #psyche

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible. ↗

— Rita Dove

#before #evidence #existed #front #imagine

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely. ↗

— Rita Dove

#book #choose #entirely #feeling #go

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person. ↗

— Rita Dove

#away #book #dream #far #far away