"I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience."

-- Elliott Smith

#Parades Quotes #Mississippi Quotes

“Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.”
“Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it.”
“I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.”
“Don't pretend to know me when I don't even know myself...”
“I dream a world... where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!”

Source : Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.259, University of Missouri Press
“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.”
“You can't expect success. It's a process. Part of getting to success is failure.”

Source : "Diandra Asbaty, pro bowler". Interview with William Hageman, articles.chicagotribune.com. June 8, 2014.
“There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things.”

Source : "Gov. Nikki Haley in No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2012.

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