"Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself."

--

Alexander Crummell

“I'm hoping that "South Of Wilshire" will help people to realize that these are places that they should patronize, not avoid.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net
“I'm a quitter. I come from a long line of quitters. It's amazing I'm here at all.”

Source : "Black Books". www.imdb.com. 2000-2004.
“Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.”
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”

Source : "I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson". Book by Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duckett, 1972.
“Men! The only animal in the world to fear.”
“There's no specific aesthetic other than a sense of the beautiful itself, I suppose.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.”
“Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.”

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