"Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and all true culture and civilization."

-- Joel Augustus Rogers

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“Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.”
“I'll try to do anything to win a game.”
“Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.”

Source : Florence Scovel Shinn, Laura Berman Fortgang (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More”, p.27, Hampton Roads Publishing
“For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.”
“Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.”
“Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.”

Source : "Subliminal Ad-ventures in Erotic Art" by Wilson Bryan Key, Branden Books, (p. 37), 1992.
“You dont know someone until you know what they want.”
“I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.”

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