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Gwendolyn Brooks: We real cool....

Gwendolyn Brooks: We real cool....

We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin....

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Stevie Smith: Nobody heard him,...

Stevie Smith: Nobody heard him,...

Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not...

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Emily Dickinson: Faith is a...

Emily Dickinson: Faith is a...

Faith is a fine invention
When Gentleman can see --
But Microscopes are prudent
In an...

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Lorraine Hansberry: Seems like God...

Lorraine Hansberry: Seems like God...

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams -- but He did give us children to make them...

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Diana Ross: You can't just...

Diana Ross: You can't just...

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it...

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Susan Sarandon: Children reinvent your...

Susan Sarandon: Children reinvent your...

Children reinvent your world for you.

Source:
-- Susan Sarandon, (Oct 4...

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Catherine the Great: I shall be...

Catherine the Great: I shall be...

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and that good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

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Elsa Schiaparelli: Fashion is born...

Elsa Schiaparelli: Fashion is born...

Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by...

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Corita Kent: Flowers grow out...

Corita Kent: Flowers grow out...

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Source: Moments of 1984, Beacon 1984.
--...

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Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Creativeness often consists...

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Creativeness often consists...

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that the right and left shoes...

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Est?e Lauder: If you don't...

Est?e Lauder: If you don't...

If you don't sell, it's not the product that's wrong, it's you.

Source: To...

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Barbara Ward: The modern world...

Barbara Ward: The modern world...

The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be...

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Margot Fonteyn: Genius is another...

Margot Fonteyn: Genius is another...

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

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Beverly Sills: Art is the...

Beverly Sills: Art is the...

Art is the signature of civilization.

Source: Interview - 1985.
-- Beverly...

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Gwendolyn Bennett: Some things are...

Gwendolyn Bennett: Some things are...

Some things are very dear to me --
Such things as flowers bathed by rain
Or patterns traced upon the...

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Joanna Baillie: Thinks't thou there...

Joanna Baillie: Thinks't thou there...

Thinks't thou there are no serpents in the world
But those that slide along the grassy sod,
And sting the...

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Joan Rivers: Thank God we're...

Joan Rivers: Thank God we're...

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks...

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Alice Childress: Some feminists feel...

Alice Childress: Some feminists feel...

Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

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Helen Hayes: Only the poet...

Helen Hayes: Only the poet...

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

Source: In The...

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Anne Baxter: I wasn't afraid...

Anne Baxter: I wasn't afraid...

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Source: In The...

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