"Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear."

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Source : Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

Mary Church Terrell

#Children Quotes #Race Quotes #Prejudice Quotes

“Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.”
“I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.”
“If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and â€“ pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know.”
“One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.”
“Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down.”
“For a successful strategy session, keep the food light, the lights bright, and drink caffeine all night.”
“On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette.”
“It's such hard work doing a musical. I did my first musical last year, performing in The Producers, and it was a big part to suddenly be doing Leo Bloom in that. It's such hard work. It's a proper slog. It became like clocking in. And it's a big factory - you go in, everyone's got their little plot, people are taking in and out of it if they have days off or holidays, and it's just a jigsaw that all works. It always amazes me that this product would happen every night and it was just all these elements coming together in a big machine.”

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