#iving

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#civil #civil rights #complaint #credit #dogged

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#american #asunder #being #body #dark

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

#book #certain #comes #death #end

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#american #asunder #being #body #dark

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

#arriving #been #first #knowledge #lessons

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#coincidence #consumed #dinners #eighteen #hours

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#gift #giving #guilt #keeps

What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before. ↗

— John Entwistle

#am #before #doing #exactly #feel

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education. ↗

— Julian Bond

#children #education #going #receiving #school

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ↗

— Epicurus

#adversity #being #being happy #challenging #courage