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In America, it is difficult to be your own man.


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You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.



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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.



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I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.



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I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.



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I am the me I choose to be.



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You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.



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I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.





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