All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.

  • -- William Wells Brown 布朗

我对黑人的唯一要求就是,白人应该把脚跟从他的脖子上挪开,让他有机会通过自己的努力站起来。

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Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

每个人都是自己生命的建筑师。他想怎么做就怎么做。然而,当他建立了他想要的东西之后,他有时会决定他不喜欢他已经建立的东西,他会寻找一些人或事情来责备,而不是改变自己。

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

我总是惊讶于一个普通的观察者是如何给予如此多的信任和重视醒着的事情,而不是那些发生在梦里的事情……男人。是他记忆中最重要的玩物。