"If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it."

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Source : "Sojourner Truth: A Self-made Woman". Book by Victoria Ortiz, 1974.

Sojourner Truth

#Talking Quotes #Rights Quotes #African American Quotes

“Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn't control your powers. Beginner's luck.”
“To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.”
“What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?”

Source : Peter Ustinov (2011). “Dear Me”, p.203, Random House
“... thething I am proudest of in my whole business life is that I do not take, that I never took in all my life, and never, never! will take, one single penny more than 6% on any loan or any contract.”
“I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.”
“I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.”
“Mme. Deluzy has said that indifference is a woman's guardian angel,--a remark not only applicable in France, but all over the world.”
“I think that every single person should play sports.”

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