"You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store."

-- Joycelyn Elders

#Thinking Quotes #Doctors Quotes #Black Quotes

“Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.”

Source : John Marin (1970). “John Marin”
“Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and a good deal worse than that â€” romantic pictures of battle, and of the dead and men in uniform and all that. And I did not want to have that story told again.”
“For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the world. Nothing now remained but heaps of rubble and a stench of decaying human flesh.”
“The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.”

Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.186, Cambridge University Press
“Sometimes, everyone is right. Not always and not even usually, but once in a while, everyone is right.”

Source : Cherie Priest (2012). “Boneshaker”, p.41, Pan Macmillan
“The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be used if they understood what was happening and how group action could counter violence.”
“I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow”
“My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.”

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