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Anna Julia Cooper

"I speak for the colored women of the South, because it is there that the millions of blacks in this country have watered the soil with blood and tears, and it is there too that the colored woman of America has made her characteristic history and there her destiny is evolving."

Source : Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.202, Rowman & Littlefield

Anna Julia Cooper

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“Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids – they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.”
“I invest because I love helping entrepreneurs and watching them learn and succeed. In my opinion your motives are driven by self serving factors around ego satisfaction and "making a buck". My motives and values are very different.”
“God is not calling us to work for Him. He is calling us to walk with Him.”
“Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.”
“American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.”
“I think sometimes that people are like onions. On the outside smooth and whole and simple but inside ring upon ring, complex and deep.”
“A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.”

Source : "Social insight rings true 125 years on" by Lee Altenberg, "Nature", vol. 490, p. 487, October 25, 2012.
“We are just interested in dealing with the people were paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.”

Source : "ON THE RECORD: DAVID NEELEMAN / Jetblue Airways". www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2004.

"I speak for the colored women of the South, because it is there that the millions of blacks in this country have watered the soil with blood and tears, and it is there too that the colored woman of America has made her characteristic history and there her destiny is evolving."

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