"Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman."

-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Perseverance Quotes #Successful Quotes #Quality Quotes

“[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.”
“People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.”
“As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.”
“I'm open to any collabos if the price is right, just hit up my manager.”
“Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.”
“Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.”
“Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.”
“There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.”

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