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Mary Church Terrell

"... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members of his race have accomplished so little, he is discouraged from attempting anything himself. For there is scarcely a field of human endeavor which colored people have been allowed to enter in which there is not at least one worthy representative."

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

Mary Church Terrell

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“Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.”
“So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.”
“I like to envision the creation of a short story collection as being like putting together a jazz album. Yes, there's logic and literary structures imposed by me, but at the same time, all the tracks are shaped and ordered in a much more improvisational manner. The guiding principle for me is whether or not a story adds a layer or texture to the overall collection.”
“[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.”
“I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.”
“If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.”
“Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses worn by them? When John Jones or Senator Rouser frees his mind in public, we are left in painful ignorance of the color and fit of his pants, coat, necktie and vest - and worse still, the shape of his boots. This seems to me a great omission.”

Source : Fanny Fern (1870). “Ginger-snaps”, p.114
“Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it that is what you compare it to;- something better and you'll feel worse; something worse and you'll feel better.”

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