"I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life."

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Source : Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.72, Kodansha America

Sarah Louise Delany

#Prejudice Quotes #This Life Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“There is one fold and one shepherd.”
“What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.”
“Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.”
“The America I do want to live in, is seeing how people respond to the victims of Hurricane Harvey. People of all races, all colors, all religions. You don't care what a person looks like, what their beliefs are - I'm helping them, because they are my fellow brother, or because they need my help. That's the America I want to live in. I don't want to live in Charlottesville, where you hate somebody because of the way that they choose to live their life. That's not a place where I want to live.”

Source : Source: people.com
“Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!”
“To this day, The Duke and I remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.”
“It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.”
“In truth, a leader should either apologize, mean it and do something about it - or not apologize at all.”

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