"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."

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Source : Booker T. Washington (1904*). “Address of Booker T. Washington, Principal of the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute: Before the National Educational Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 30, 1904”

Booker T. Washington

#Positive Quotes #Strength Quotes #Success Quotes

“In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.”

Source : Kevin Smith (2012). “Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good”, p.13, Penguin
“The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.”
“As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible.”

Source : "The Best of Interviews With Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Messner". “CNN Larry King Weekend”, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2001.
“In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.”
“There is a political and racial context behind everything that I do. Not always because I design it that way, or because I want it that way, but rather because it's just the way people look at the work of an African-American artist in this country.”

Source : "'I try to create a place of disorientation' - interview with Kehinde Wiley". Interview With Anna Savitskaya, artdependence.com. February 16, 2015.
“Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.”
“I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.”
“People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!”

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

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