"When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he'd be washing dishes somewhere."

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Source : Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.114, Kodansha America

Annie Elizabeth Delany

#Boys Quotes #Average Quotes #White Quotes

“If a woman is comfortable with herself, I think that's what radiates. I think the moment you start questioning your body and looks is when you get into trouble.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If I can send one person home after a performance feeling better than when they arrived, then I've done my job, and I sleep good at night.”
“The voters reward good performance. So, I'm going to go out and focus, if I become the governor, to do the very best job I can as governor. The rest of it will take care of itself.”
“Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.”
“You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.”

Source : Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books
“It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.”
“It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.”
“If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.”

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