"When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see that my face is white - I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless."

-- Marian Anderson

#White Quotes #Soul Quotes #Black Quotes

“Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.”
“If you can't build relationships from nothing, you will fail. You must have that drive.”
“I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.”
“When things go right (and they go right a lot - you just got to keep trying) there is nothing to really laugh about.”
“A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.”

Source : "In the Presence of America: A Conversation with Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.
“Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod”
“Our goal is not to get out of the world or to get out of life, but to integrate it, to celebrate it, to embrace it fully, and to embrace all the different cycles within it.”
“Friends have ways of speaking without words.”

Source : Alice Dalgliesh (2012). “The Courage of Sarah Noble”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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