"Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways."

-- James Weldon Johnson

#Strong Quotes #Race Quotes #White Quotes

“I always design my own hats to complete my fashion thought....I like them slightly mad, like this huge black poppy. Right now I lift the bosom high on coats and dresses...I am using so many high curved belts.”
“Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.”

Source : Roger Penrose (1994). “Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA
“Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.”
“In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined language of science by the misleading language of litigation and advocacy may be one of the more important sources of damage to society incurred in the current debate over global warming.”
“I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.”
“It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.”
“The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.”
“... both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self ...”

Source : Dorothy Gilman (1967). “Uncertain Voyage”

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