"I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage â€“ though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow."

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Source : Henry Ossawa Tanner, Anna O. Marley (2012). “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit”, p.139, Univ of California Press

Henry Ossawa Tanner

#Believe Quotes #Blood Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.”
“Some menâ€™s prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.”
“Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways.”
“Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?'”

Source : "Eat Your Words: Anthony Bourdain on Being Wrong". Interview with Kathryn Schulz, www.slate.com. May 31, 2010.
“Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul CÃ©zanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice to Toledo (where El Greco painted a lot, fh). Expression is for one knowing its own pivot. Every expressor relates solely to himself - that is the concern of the individualist.”
“Now I have demonstrated, that the convolutions of the brain are nothing but the peripheric expansion of the bundles of which it is composed; consequently the convolutions of the brain must be recognized as the parts in which the instincts, sentiments, propensities are exercised; and, in general the moral and intellectual forces.”
“Some of the worst elements of Guyland rest on the twin pillars of men's silence and women's compliance.”

Source : "How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood". TODAYshow.com Q&A, www.today.com. August 3, 2010.
“Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.”

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