"Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina."

-- Althea Gibson

#Queens Quotes #Hands Quotes #Long Quotes

“The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.”
“The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.”
“I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.”
“It doesn't make any sense. If the SIM are policemen, secret or not, shouldn't we trust them instead of being afraid of them?”
“The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.”

Source : Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
“People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.”
“Everyone has a masculine and feminine side; masculine qualities and feminine qualities. We've all got these sides to ourselves. And clothes can tell that story. People would think this is very unsympathetic, but I would always say to people, you don't actually need to go through with an operation, can't you just be? You are who you are! But then people say to me, "Oh, you're really dreadful, how would you know?".”
“Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.”

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