The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic ludicrous side of it and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits thoughts and feelings as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon the body acts upon.
When all is said and done the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.
Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Yes forget your weakness whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism it is selfishness after. all for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness and remember your strength.
Terms like that 'Humane Society ' are devised with people like me in mind who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.