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“If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.”
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“Convention is the ruler of all.”
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“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
Source : Booker T. Washington (1911). “My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience”
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“Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing.”
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“Despite all of the civil rights gains of the past several decades, when it comes to economic opportunity, African Americans and Latinos still experience far more unemployment than do whites and Asians, average wages are lower, and household wealth is lower. A smaller percentage of African Americans and Latinos attend, and complete, college, than is the case with whites and Asians, and a higher percentage end up in prison. All of these are indicators of massive disparities in opportunity, and these disparities are mirrored in poverty data.”
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“Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.”
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“There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.”
Source : "Death Comes for the Archbishop". Book by Willa Cather, 1927.
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“I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.”
Source : Elinor Wylie (1934). “The Novels of Elinor Wylie”
