"Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter."

-- Ida B. Wells

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“Getting a well-rounded education and developing a love of learning that hopefully will continue to last my lifetime certainly helped prepare me to understand what's coming at me in this world and to adapt.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“The view of Earth is spectacular.”
“In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.”
“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”
“I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.”
“The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a huge salary with endless holidays, to do nothing whatever.”
“Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.”
“Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I canâ€™t read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.”

Source : "The Constant Art of Being a Writer" by N. M. Kelby, (p. 102), 2009.

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