Month: February 2023

My parents had the good sense to channel my energy and put me in dancing school, because I was driving them crazy.

—Judith Jamison

If farmers do not cultivate their fields, the people in the town will die of hunger.

—Guinean Proverb

One of the problems with this country is that we’re wasting the elderly. But nature wastes nothing, so why isn’t their knowledge recycled into the children? To me, there’s nothing more wonderful than an old person who loves children and wants to teach them.

—Eartha Kitt

I rewrite all the way to the printer. I’m never satisfied.

—Toni Morrison

Whenever I find myself beginning to be intolerant or insensitive with my daughters, I think back to a similar incident I put my mother through and I smile and understand their need to be themselves.

—Annette Jones White

I glory in conflict, that I may hereafter exult in victory.

—Frederick Douglass

Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded, because it is so easy not to battle at all, to just accept and call that acceptance inevitable.

—Audre Lord

I love to walk on the Sabbath, for all is so peaceful, the noise and labor of everyday life has ceased; and in perfect silence we can commune with nature and with Nature’s God

—Charlotte L. Forten

To cheer up on those bad or frustrating days, I want to laugh, so I watch “I Love Lucy” tapes.

—Gail Devers

Let the Afro-American depend on no party, but on himself for his salvation. Let him to continue to education, to character, and above all, to put money in his purse. When he has money, and plenty of it, parties and races will become his servants.

—Ida B. Wells