"A crisis event often explodes the illusions that anchor our lives."

“One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being.”

Source : "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolf Rocker, (Ch. 5), 1938.

“When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.”

“I wish I had known that it's OK to stand up for myself. That it's also OK to not be liked but to be respected, and I always want to be liked.”

“The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.”

“A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true.”

“At the beginning, people laughed at me because I was using snappies. Sometimes, a celebrity would look at my camera and go, Oh, I've got one of those. I'd feel like handing it to them and saying, Well, you take the pictures then. But I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.”

“Only three things them ladies talk about: they kids, they clothes, and they friends. I hear the word Kennedy, I know they ain’t discussing no politic. They talking about what Miss Jackie done wore on the tee-vee.”

“One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book.”

Source : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1969). “Lola Leroy: Shadows Uplifted”, p.240, Library of Alexandria