"I grew up on a farm and, prior to my father's murder, I wanted to get away from the farm, and away from South Georgia where the Jim Crow laws absolutely controlled anything and everything we did. So, my goal was to leave once I completed high school. But on the night of my father's murder, I made a commitment that I would not leave the South, that I would stay and devote my life to working for change. So, my father's murder has shaped the course of my life even up to this very day."

-- Shirley Sherrod

#School Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Night Quotes

“Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
“History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.”
“I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.”
“Don't fight your problem. Know that there is a solution.”
“A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?”
“When it comes to exercise, I don't like anything that's too serious.”

Source : "Role Models: Five Victoria's Secret Angels Reveal Their Fitness Secrets". Interview with Esther Adams Achara, www.vogue.com. July 14, 2011.
“I definitely don't want to have kids ... I don't think I'd be a great mother. I'm a great aunt or friend of a mother ... I don't want to spend that kind of time. I don't want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don't have time to raise a child.”

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