"usta be young usta be gifted - still black."

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Source : Wanda Coleman (1998). “Bathwater Wine”, p.100, David R. Godine Publisher

Wanda Coleman

#Black Quotes #Young Quotes #Gifted Quotes

“What words can express her [the white womanâ€™s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully held her unworthy of a voice in its councils, while it recognized as the political superiors of all the noble women of the nation the negro men just emerged from slavery, and not only totally illiterate, but also densely ignorant of every public question.”
“Its better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.”
“For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.”

Source : Alma Guillermoprieto (2011). “The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now”, p.104, Vintage
“I say to people today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.”
“When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.”
“I've discovered that, in order for life to go on, you have to believe in necessary fantasies such as what you think is going to happen next week will actually happen, the people who are alive right now will be alive next week.”

Source : "Decca Aitkenhead on Empathy and Memory". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2016.
“You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.”

Source : Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing
“They were indeed great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost.”

Source : Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen (1952). “Tales of Grimm and Andersen”

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