“There ain't no man can avoid being born average. But there ain't no man got to be common.”
Satchel Paige (1906–1982) American baseball player and coach; Negro Leagues
"Words of the Week" Jet (Sep 4, 1958)
“The future's another country, man… And I still ain't got a passport.”
Source: On Beauty
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“You gotta rock that rainbow while you still got your youth!
Oh! Ain't it the solid truth?”
Yip Harburg (1896–1981) American song lyricist
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Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
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Variant: The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Source: Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers' Power
Context: Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and our people rediscover their identity and thereby increase their self respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
“The future ain't what it used to be.”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes, Hyperion, 2002, ISBN 0786867752, p. 159.
Paul Valery (1937): "The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.". Translated in English in 1948 in Our Destiny and Literature.
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