“If you care about what others think of you, then you will always be their slave.”
“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
“As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.”
“There was always something about our family, and I don't mean color--there was something about us that impeded you. You think like a prisoner. You do, Coleman Brutus. You're white as snow and you think like a slave.”
“It's ok to care about what other people think, but you should give a little more weight to what you, yourself, think...The habit of thinking is the habit of gaining strength. You're stronger than you believe.”
“You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”