"Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration."

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Barbara Smith

#Unique Quotes #Black Quotes #Important Quotes

“I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.”
“In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.”
“The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance.”
“I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.”
“I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.”
“Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge. What turns the gears in our brains isn't information, but ideas, inventions, and inspiration. Knowledge-not information-implies understanding. And beyond knowledge lies what we should be seeking: wisdom.”
“Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.”

Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1903). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom ...”

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