"I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless."

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Source : "Independent Lens (The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. February 18, 2013.

Whitney M. Young

#Thinking Quotes #Voice Quotes #Hopeless Quotes

“Venus favors the bold.”
“What many fail to realize is that being attached to what we think we want and don't have while resisting what is happening in the moment is the cause, not the cure, of much personal suffering and interpersonal conflict.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“Have the willingness to go into the roots of your worst fear until you feel the essence of what you are, your pure potential, the foundation of what you really are.”
“Hopkins is talking about fighting at Yankee Stadium but that's rubbish. If he fought at Yankee Stadium, even the ushers wouldn't want to watch him. Bernard Hopkins couldn't draw breath.”
“Since the day I got in radio at the age of 15, I always wanted everyone with ears listening to me. I don't know how to narrow that down.”

Source : "Special guest Donnie Simpson, more on Pop Culture With Paul Farhi". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 2, 2010.
“I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.”
“Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.”

Source : Edmund Wilson (1951). “Memoirs of Hecate County”
“She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky.”

Source : Patrick Süskind (2015). “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”, p.182, Penguin UK

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