"If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers."

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Source : Alexander Crummell (1969). “Africa and America”, p.376, Рипол Классик

Alexander Crummell

#Strength Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Flower Quotes

“Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.”
“Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.”
“I don't think I've ever bench-pressed anything in my life. Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day. Then I stopped and I lost a lot of weight because my appetite was less. I'm not skinny now - I'm spindly. I eat an extremely simple diet - mostly salmon, avocado, feta cheese, chicken, eggs, peanut butter, blueberries, and quinoa.”
“Sitting still is a pain in the ass.”
“Music to me, still to this day, is this wide open landscape of potential sounds (and I have more words for it now as a grown person), but as a little kid I used to think, "oh, you can just make up melodies and sometimes when you make certain melodies it makes you feel a certain way."”

Source : Interview with Charles Carman, www.curatormagazine.com. June 16, 2014.
“Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses.”
“People complain about their griefs and sorrows and how they pray to God but find no relief from pain. But grief itself is a gift from God. It is the symbol of His compassion.”
“Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.”

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