"I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'"

-- Lynn Nottage

#Thinking Quotes #African American Quotes #Broadway Quotes

“Good marketers tell a story.”
“Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.”
“The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.”
“The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal to a limited faculty, and not to the whole man. It is not Linnaeus or Cavendish or Cuvier who gives us the true sense of animals, or water, or plants, who seizes their secret for us, who makes us participate in their life; it is Shakspeare [sic] â€¦ Wordsworth â€¦ Keats â€¦ Chateaubriand â€¦ Senancour.”
“There is a glorious pattern for every man's life, an individual, perfect patter. No two people are alike ... No two leaves are alike-no two snowstorms-no two sets of fingerprints. No two lives are alike, yet each life holds a divine pattern of unfoldment, a great and holy destiny, rich in achievement and honor. As you live true to the pattern of yourself, that deep, inner self, you will unfold as perfect, as joyous, as naturally beautiful as the tree will reach its full measure of fulfillment.”
“Champions all get kicked when they're down.”
“Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.”
“The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.”

Source : Dashiell Hammett (2007). “Vintage Hammett”, p.151, Vintage

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