"To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth."

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Source : What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the U.S., delivered 10 October 1906, United Women's Club, Washington, D.C.

Mary Church Terrell

#Effort Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Incentives Quotes

“There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.”
“My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight.”
“Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.”
“Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.”
“Did you have an extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky?”

Source : "He Said, She Said: Clinton Prepares To Testify". www.cnn.com.
“I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.”

Source : Danielle Trussoni (2010). “Angelology: A Novel”, p.284, Penguin
“I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.”

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