"One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists."

-- Carter G. Woodson

#Citing Quotes #Cases Quotes #Abolitionist Quotes

“You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.”
“All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.”

Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc
“I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.”
“Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn”
“I would say my favorite was just the beginning of the movie like doing all the rehearsal stuff. It's been amazing to see the rest of it happen but it happens so piecemeal. And Edgar sort of has the whole movie edited in his head already, so we're just sort of matching to what he has.”
“I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.”
“All over East Africa-indeed, all over Africa-it is normal for people to walk a kilometer or two or six for water. In more arid areas, people walk even greater distances, and sometimes all they find at the end is a pond slimy with overuse. More than 90 percent of Africans still dig for their water, and waterborne diseases such as typhoid, dysentery, bilharzia, and cholera are common. The bodies of many Africans are a stew of parasites. In some areas the wells are so far below the earth's surface that chains of people are required to pass up the water.”
“The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.”

Source : Henry Moore (1968). “Henry Spencer Moore”

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