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Jessie Redmon Fauset: Biology transcends society....

Jessie Redmon Fauset: Biology transcends society....

Biology transcends society.

Source: The Chinaberry Tree, 1913.
-- Jessie Redmon...

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Paula Gunn Allen: An odd thing...

Paula Gunn Allen: An odd thing...

An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or...

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Susan Griffin: What is buried...

Susan Griffin: What is buried...

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

Source: In...

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Diane Ackerman: There is no...

Diane Ackerman: There is no...

There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our...

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Vera Brittain: The pacifists, task...

Vera Brittain: The pacifists, task...

The pacifists, task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive...

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Eleanor Robson Belmont: A private railroad...

Eleanor Robson Belmont: A private railroad...

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

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Zora Neale Hurston: If you haven't...

Zora Neale Hurston: If you haven't...

If you haven't got it,
you can't show it.
If you have got it,
you can't hide it.


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Zora Neale Hurston: I have been...

Zora Neale Hurston: I have been...

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in...

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Lorraine Hansberry: There is always...

Lorraine Hansberry: There is always...

There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned...

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May Swenson: The summer that...

May Swenson: The summer that...

The summer that I was ten --
Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must
have been a long one...

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Edith Sitwell: Poetry is the...

Edith Sitwell: Poetry is the...

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Source: In Life, 4 Jan 1963.
-- Edith...

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Grandma Moses: I paint from...

Grandma Moses: I paint from...

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and...

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Grace Hansen: ??...

Grace Hansen: ??...

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-- Grace Hansen, (Jan 0 1913-1985), US dance director; 0

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Martha Graham: Dance is the...

Martha Graham: Dance is the...

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Source: Interview The New York...

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Brigitte Bardot: It is better...

Brigitte Bardot: It is better...

It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Source: The...

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Mae West: Marriage is a...

Mae West: Marriage is a...

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Source: In...

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Marilyn Monroe: I've been on...

Marilyn Monroe: I've been on...

I've been on a calendar, but never on time.

Source: Quoted in: Look (16 Jan....

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Marilyn Monroe: It stirs up...

Marilyn Monroe: It stirs up...

It stirs up envy, fame does.

Source: In Common Fame: The Culture of Celebrity,...

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Lauren Bacall: I don't sit...

Lauren Bacall: I don't sit...

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that...

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Whoopi Goldberg: I believe that...

Whoopi Goldberg: I believe that...

I believe that parts of people like John Garfield and Moms Mabley, the parts of them that I needed to be able to do...

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