"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence."

-- Booker T. Washington

#Education Quotes #Race Quotes #Independence Quotes

“I was a single mother when my child was little.”
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”

Source : Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume
“I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world.”
“And I really believe that. Asthma is NOT a disability!”
“Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference. It's something I did naturally...”
“The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men. And so Christ's words from the cross are written in sharp-edged terms across some of the most inexpressible tragedies of history: 'They know not what they do'.”
“There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads and the pictures were so vivid.”
“PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.”

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