"Psychologically, I'm a Roman Baptist."

-- Samuel Bowers

#Baptists Quotes #Civil Rights Quotes

“Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.”
“Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.”
“When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.”
“What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. Youâ€™re left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on, or not. But if you go on, itâ€™s knowing you carry your scars with you.”

Source : Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.421, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“The good teams are good at what they do.”
“Looks like macho boy's cool just melted like a Slush Puppie in August.”
“Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.”
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”

Source : "Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing‎" by Larry Chang, (p. 55), 2006.

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