Favorite quotes

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible." -Maya Angelou

 

A letter from Sullivan Ballou, a union soldier in the Civil War, to his wife a week before he was killed at the Battle of Bull Run.

 

"And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies then they would become my enemies. And then, they would fear you". The Godfather

 

"Two teardrops in a bucket, mother fuck it." The Lady Chablis

 

This quote is in my email signature at work: "I had a terrible education. I went to a school for emotionally disturbed teachers." Woody Allen

 

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

"You haven't accomplished anything if your answer to any design or advertising problem isn't a surprise. Everything you do has to be memorable. It's not enough just to do great work — it's about talent, salesmanship, and a sense of theatre." —legendary advertising executive George Lois

 

"When the mouth stumbles it is worse than the foot." -West African Proverb

 

"There's a thing in Buddhism that says, 'Find what you should be doing and do it.' Just try and notice what you're drawn to all the time. Because that's the way your life should go. And when you do something that you feel vocationally drawn to, it's not like a job. It's what you should be doing. It's your raison d'etre." —Billy Connolly

 

Great quote.:smt023

 

"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice." -Morgan Freeman

 

"Nothing is all bad, and nothing is all good." -A Black Grandmother

 

"The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor."
-- William Feather

 

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
-- Timothy Leary

 

Damn

 

"If you take history you do not like out of the history books, you are not doing real history, you are doing propaganda!!"

 

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him"

 

lol

seriously..reminds me of the 'American history' books we had in grade school. they never highlighted african-americans, unless it had something to do with the slave trade.

this was back in the 80s and 90s tho. things probably changed by now...however, this was the reason 'African-American' studies courses started to pop up in schools. you had a way to learn about us, albeit somewhat out of the mainstream and on a elective basis only.

perhaps american history texts are more integrated now

 

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." -Alice Walker