"Itâ€™s no disgrace to be black, but itâ€™s often very inconvenient."

-- James Weldon Johnson

#Black Quotes #Disgrace Quotes

“If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it”
“This decree is very serious and we will not allow it to pass unopposed. (on Israel offers 10-month West Bank settlement freeze)”
“I don't really have a dream collaboration.”
“In order to succeed, you have to live dangerously.. as long as the danger is rationally accepted and as long as the rewards far outweigh the risk.”
“Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.”

Source : Recalled on his death, 20 Apr1982.
“I try to be the best husband and father I possibly can. And it doesn't mean I get to spend as much time with my family as I'd like, but I do the best I can. Even if you do get to be an astronaut and get to go and do a lot of interesting things, at some point that will come to an end. If in the process you short change your family or compromise your values along the way, when you get through on the other side, it won't really be worth it. At least not to me.”
“I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron and my people.”
“Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body to the spade Or grope with a dirty hand.”

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