#la

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#black #brought #could #devilish #doubt

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

I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger. ↗

— Buchi Emecheta

#another #because #better #children #doing

I amused myself playing with the journalists. ↗

— Brigitte Boisselier

#i #journalists #myself #playing

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#defense #else #need #power #save

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#mighty #minds #play #stimulate #untrained

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#book #classic #written

I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#back #choosing #days #doing #during

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap. ↗

— Eminem

#black #color #crossed #fact #friends

They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#boring #extremely #going #i #keen