A Quote by Thomas Sowell

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.

Thomas Sowell

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Thomas Sowell
American - Economist
Born: June 30, 1930

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I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.

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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

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More Than' means refusing to define yourself according to what society dictates, or everyone around you thinks you should do or be.

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I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.

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