"African Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem."

-- Bebe Moore Campbell

#Thinking Quotes #Racism Quotes #African American Quotes

“I'm here to tell you that a champion is someone who has fallen off the horse a dozen times and gotten back on the horse a dozen times. Successful people never give up.”
“Microsoft has built loyalty at the end-user level, including upper management, .. That works for a while in the early stages of a product, but after a couple of years the blush fades from the rose. It's reality versus marketing.”
“The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.”
“I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put a piece of music in front of me now, I would probably know the notes, but not the timing, how they're supposed to be played, and I just don't know how to read chords. If I'd stuck with it, I'd probably have more jobs.”
“Want of punctuality is a want of virtue.”
“Service is selflessness--the opposite of the lifestyle that we see so much of in America today. The things that entertain us don't often lift us up, or show us as the people we can rise up to become. The people who appear in this book--and others who did things I can't talk about--are my role models. They quietly live out the idea expressed in the Bible (John 15:13): "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
“I like men to be men and I like them to care about me and to take care of me. I'm willing to let them do that.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.”

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