"You might say that I was the first and caused others to awaken to the sense of their duty in helping deserving causes for the benefit of the race."

-- Madam C. J. Walker

#Race Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Causes Quotes

“It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.”
“Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.”
“Impossible. I merely brought the essentials. Clothes, my favorite boots, face cream, makeup, a few books to read, a couple cans of caviar, lingerie, and my coffeepot. Plus a few other things a girl like me just canâ€™t live without but canâ€™t mention in mixed company because it would be indelicate. You know, because theyâ€™re sexual.â€ - at â€œlingerie,â€ Hector and Dallas had stood a little straighter. At â€œsexual,â€ theyâ€™d moaned. Jaxon punched them both in the back of the head.”
“Sometimes I love [acting] but then sometimes I think it's too much for me and I don't know if it is something that I could do for the rest of my life.”
“The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words written. Such rituals provide a structure to work in, whether or not the feeling of motivation or inspiration happens to be present. They let people work alongside negative or positive emotions, instead of getting distracted by the effort of cultivating only positive ones. â€˜Inspiration is for amateurs,â€™ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. â€˜The rest of us just show up and get to work.”
“Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.”
“There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.”
“I'd rather have none at all than a grain too much.”

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