“ Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. ”
- Shirley Chisholm- Copy
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“ Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads. ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
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“ The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
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“ Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive. ”
- Jesse Jackson- Copy
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“ Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. ”
- John Webster- Copy
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“ Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,Brother to Death, in silent darkness born:Relieve my languish, and restore the light,With dark forgetting of my care return. ”
- Samuel Daniel- Copy
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“ Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. ”
- Groucho Marx- Copy
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“ I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. ”
- Dick Gregory- Copy
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“ Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up. ”
- Anne Lamott- Copy
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“ Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they're always there. ”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale- Copy
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“ I would go into the kitchen for coffee and on the way back to the page, curled in its roller, I would light one up and feel its dry rush mix with the dark taste of coffee. ”
- William Collins- Copy
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“ Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
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“ And He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him. ”
- Ernest Jones- Copy
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“ Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ”
- Dame Edith Sitwell- Copy
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“ I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark. ”
- Jilly Cooper- Copy
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“ The dictate of the light says: "Know yourself and what you are." The dark replies, "By all means, but then become afraid.". ”
- Tanith Lee- Copy
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“ We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
- 1K
“ We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud. ”
- Sophocles- Copy
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