"The Afro-American is not a ***** race."

-- Ida B. Wells

#Race Quotes #Afros Quotes

“You were going to travel for love, without shoes, or cloak, or common sense. This is one of the things a woman can do when her lover leaves her. It's hard on the feet perhaps, but staying at home is hard on the heart, and you weren't quite ready to give up on him yet.”
“Ah! If nations could only agree to employ their resources to perfect agriculture and improve transportation, and to bring all their girl children a good education, what an explosion of happiness there would be on earth!”
“You gotta stay 'fresh to death,' I call it. Fresh outfit, fresh haircut, fresh tan. Just stay fresh.”
“A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.”
“The final condensation.”
“An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they have been turned into open sewers by communities and by industries. It makes us all very fearful that all rivers will go this way unless somebody acts now to try to balance our river development.”
“Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.”
“As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.”

Source : "Robert Plant: Born In England; Made In America". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 20, 2010.

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