"You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too."

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Booker T. Washington

#School Quotes #Race Quotes #Black History Quotes

“I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.”

Source : "It's Official: Awkward's Ashley Rickards Is Freaking Hilarious and She Shared Her Phone Pics to Prove It" by Caitlin Brody, www.glamour.com. September 20, 2012.
“I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.”

Source : Eleanor Coppola (1979). “Notes”, Simon & Schuster
“When you are going through something that heavy, for me anyway, I couldn't imagine writing about anything else. I always tend to write about what's most prevalent in my mind.”
“I think a lot of my dreams have come true, and my next dream is to have a No. 1 selling album. A Grammy-award-winning album.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resiliency.”
“...and it is a serious matter to destroy a man's faith without replacing it.”

Source : Victor Serge (2014). “Birth of Our Power”, p.109, PM Press
“Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world because whatever the person does, if it works you just say that's what's good, and if it doesn't work, you guys go, 'He should have done the other things.'.It just doesn't take much thought. If I'm grinding and I'm winning, you guys are like, 'He's reinvented himself.' If I'm playing like crap and pushing, then, you know, 'He's horrible and he needs to hit the ball.'”

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