"The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people."

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Source : Albert Murray, Roberta S. Maguire (1997). “Conversations with Albert Murray”, p.129, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Albert Murray

#People Quotes #Creation Quotes #Strive Quotes

“Age is nothing, can still win the Grand Slam, pretty happy about my age, more experience.”
“Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.”
“But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.”

Source : "Amid this panic over stabbings, we are ignoring what really cuts crime" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2006.
“Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.”
“There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.”
“Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.”
“If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.”

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