"All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs."

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Source : Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.54, Courier Dover Publications

Anna Julia Cooper

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“I'm interested in the cultural thing - music, then eventually cinema. I think it's part of my struggle as a cultural worker. I'm not into the armed thing. I cannot be violent.”

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“I'll fight anybody who grabs the rope to hang themselves.”
“I meditate every day for between ten to twenty minutes. Every morning, I work out and go to the gym for an hour. I pray to the architect that designed me. I'm grateful.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight.”
“He was, albeit only briefly, the hero of the world's hopes.”

Source : David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, Penguin Group USA
“Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.”
“Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires.”
“I have had my different husbands, my families. I am fond of them all and I visit them all. But deep inside me there is the feeling that I belong to show business.”

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