"But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form."

-- James Weldon Johnson

#Ambition Quotes #Voice Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I hate Mother's Day. If anything, it's an affront to all women who think full-time moms have never worked a day in their lives. Which reminds me of a good joke: What do you call an angry feminist on Mother's Day? You don't.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“In the course of normal speaking the inhibitory function of the will is continuously directed to bringing the course of ideas and the articulatory movements into harmony with each other. If the expressive movement which which follows the idea is retarded through mechanical causes, as is the case in writing ... such anticipations make their appearance with particular ease.”
“Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James - oh, but he worked that book; he held to it like a rope ladder.”

Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.103, Atlantic Monthly Press
“Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]”
“How can I study from below, that which is above?”
“If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them.”
“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.”
“Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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