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HEALTH
When Negroes are...
When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you...
I thought I...
I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only...
Once in a...
Once in a while, God sends a good white person my way, even to this day. I think it's God's way of keeping me from...
Turning one hundred...
Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so...
Ain't nobody going...
Ain't nobody going to censor me, no, sir! I'm a hundred and one years old, and at my age, honey, I can say what I...
The real meaning...
The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact...
The more refined...
The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
Source: The...
I have no...
I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.
Source: In
Recounting of a...
Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud ... leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are...
No one can...
No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one...
We are dealing...
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to...
Science is all...
Science is all metaphor.
Source: Interview, 24 Sep 1980; published in Contemporary...
In the information...
In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were...
If you don't...
If you don't like what you are doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another...
If you take...
If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs...
I have lived...
I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been;...
Everybody's business is...
Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.
. . ....
. . . the door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
Economy, prudence, and...
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their...
I may be...
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed...