"It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who has put out my eyes to makea parade of my blindness,--to reproach me for my poverty when he has wronged me of my money.... If he is poor, what has become of the money he has been earning for the last two hundred and fifty years? Years ago it was said cotton fights and cotton conquers for American slavery. The Negro helped build up that great cotton power in the South, and in the North his sigh was in the whir of its machinery, and his blood and tears upon the warp and woof of its manufactures."

-- Frances Harper

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“I've definitely done my share of tripping over monitors, etc. but nothing could compare to the time when I totally forgot the beginning of a song that I was starting on stage.”
“Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”

Source : Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.65
“When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with great splendor and magnificence, he said with a smile of contempt, "This is all arrogance." Afterwards some Lacedemonians came in his way, as mean and as sordid in their attire as the dress of the others was rich. "This," said he, "is also arrogance.”
“While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support.”
“I'm telling you, the gorgeous of the world can actually look pretty intimidating when they scowl. Imagine a snow-white swan with a scary tattoo holding a chain saw. There's just no way to really prepare for that.”

Source : Jim Benton (2013). “Dear Dumb Diary #11: Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers”, p.53, Scholastic
“Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.”
“I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.”

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