"I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift."

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Source : Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

Septima Poinsette Clark

#Peace Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Facts Quotes

“We must change the culture of politics first.”
“People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'”
“I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain, or if you're afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that.”
“Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.”
“I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.”
“The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after. We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st”
“A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.”
“Going to college and living with someone of another race gave me a different view of what people have to go through.”

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