"I had a lot of hatred, but I realized that kind of hate didn't do much. I had to start fueling myself with pride. We owe the ancestors that. So many of the souls who died in bondage just want us to recognize their struggle."

-- Marilyn Nelson

#Hate Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Pride Quotes

“Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.”
“"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth..." Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a "beginning," and when it was, it is written in the rocks that, like the animals and plants upon its surface, the earth itself grew.”

Source : Elisha Gray (1899). “Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science”, W. Briggs ; Montreal : C.W. Coates ; Halifax : S.F. Huestis, [19--?]
“I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again”
“A plaque and platinum status is whack if I'm not the baddest.”
“My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.”
“I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.”

Source : Meditaciones del Quijote "Lector" (1914)
“To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.”
“One thing that I think never goes out of style is just purity. Niceness and purity. And the Muppets have never lost that. Kermit especially is just wide-eyed wonder, unblinking. And he cant blink. Which I think probably helps.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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