"The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers - weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there's money inside. There's where the power lies."

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Source : "Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete". Book by Tony Gentry, 1990.

Jesse Owens

#Lying Quotes #Power Quotes #Black Quotes

“I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.”
“Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.”
“...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.”
“My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history.”
“For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research ...To find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, silence, waiting....”
“There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves.”

Source : Sherwood Anderson (1969). “Sherwood Anderson's memoirs: a critical edition”
“The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.”

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