Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.
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To han me foul and old til that I deye,
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EMMELINE PANKHURST Attempts by one ethnic group to exercise sovereignty over another are not fair. It doesn't matte...
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We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
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GWENDOLYN BROOKS I've always thought of myself as a reporter.
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GWENDOLYN BROOKS I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, e...
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GWENDOLYN BROOKS First fight. Then fiddle.
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GWENDOLYN BROOKS To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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GWENDOLYN BROOKS Each body has its art…
GWENDOLYN BROOKS we are each other's magnitude and bond.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Live not for Battles Won.
Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.
Live in the along.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
GWENDOLYN BROOKS As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to m...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.
And be it gash or gold it will not come
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GWENDOLYN BROOKS It is brave to be involved / To be not fearful to be unresolved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Truth
And if sun comes
How shall we greet him?
Shall we not dread him,...
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GWENDOLYN HEASLEY Look where YOU have been; view where YOU are at; seek where YOU want to be.
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GARTH BROOKS Truth is mighty and will prevail.
[Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.]
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PHILLIPS BROOKS Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
BROOKS ATKINSON A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
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PHILLIPS BROOKS Let
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MO BROOKS Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w...
TERRY BROOKS Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the liv...
TERRY BROOKS When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue....
ALBERT BROOKS I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able ...
TERRY BROOKS All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me...
MEL BROOKS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the d...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
PHILLIPS BROOKS The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of ma...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is th...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
PHILLIPS BROOKS To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made th...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Just keep taking chances and having fun.
GARTH BROOKS In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told peo...
RODNEY BROOKS I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's ins...
SCOTT BROOKS I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for ...
SCOTT BROOKS Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But i...
MEL BROOKS Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
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