"It is a burden, I'm saying, to live where I live."

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Source : Tess Gallagher (1999). “At the Owl Woman Saloon”, Scribner

Tess Gallagher

“Of agitating good roads there is no end, and perhaps this is as it should be, but I think you'll agree that it is high time to agitate less and build more. [Here is] a plan whereby the automobile industry of America can build a magnificent "Appian Way" from New York to San Francisco, having it completed by May 1, 1915 and present it to the people of the United States.”
“I think I'm a full-time artist, a full-time urban planner, and a full-time preacher with an aspiration of no longer needing any of those titles. Rather, I'm trying to do what for some seems a very messy work or a complicated work.”
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
“I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.”

Source : Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.231, University of Chicago Press
“Success is always dangerous. It can make an ***** out of anybody.”
“The party now is having my kids laugh and my wife laugh and my teammates. I want them to see me have fun and put it in a different way.”
“There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character.”
“Those days are long gone. But our corporations haven't caught up with it. Our law firms, our higher education system, and our medical institutions haven't figured out how this family policy is going to work. Men are tired of the 80- to 100-hour work week as well.”

Source : Interview with Erik Hansen, tompeters.com.

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