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I think this quote is important to Mark because it was basically the story of his life when he was young. Being poor, hungry, and un-educated, Mark really had no power at all to change anything. He couldn't change his dad, he couldn't change the evil white people, he couldn't change the police, but what he could change was himself. This quote illustrates Mark's struggle to change his own attitude on life so that he couold be successful. And as a result of him focusing on changing his own attitude, he could then move on to changing bigger things.