Baldwin The First Of Jerusalem Quotes & Sayings

African American racial consciousness responds to the horrors of the Middle Passage and New World slavery as well as to the unfulfilled promise of "all men are created equal." Blackness becomes a form of "double consciousness," as W. E. B. Du Bois put it long ago, a sense of being both African and American, insiders and outsiders, different and equal.
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The world is not fair. That's why it needs heroes. — Mark Andrew Poe

I am looking through a lace curtain at a dead man's feet. I am ten years old, the mist is rising on a fall morning in 1944 in Sawyer, Georgia, and I am standing on a front porch painted gray with white trim. — Anne Lovett

There are millions of stars, each one shining and burning out at the same time. They die like everything else - you have to appreciate them before they're gone — Anna Carey

The capacity to pay attention to an afflicted person is something very rare, very difficult; it is nearly a miracle. It is a miracle. Nearly all those who believe they have this capacity do not. Warmth, movements of the heart, and pity are not sufficient. — Simone Weil

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you. — Denis Waitley

If everything around Gansey was soft-edged and organic, faded and homogenous, Ronan was sharp and dark and dissonant, standing out in stark relief from the wood. — Maggie Stiefvater

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning. — Bhartrhari

If you see your neighbor in sin, don't look only at this, but also think about what he has done or does that is good, and infrequently trying this in general, while not partialy judging, you will find that he is better than you. — Saint Basil

I'd try to stuff myself into one of these scenarios, but it's like wearing a size five sneaker when your foot is a seven
you can get by for a few steps, and then you sit down and pull off the shoe because it just plain hurts too much. — Jodi Picoult

Oblivion is the place where all my best thoughts reside or I must say hide. — Shreya Gupta

When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen. — Margaret Chan

most bravery boiled down to nothing more than a strong sense of duty that piggybacked an even stronger sense of crazy. Everything brave was a little bit crazy. — Tarryn Fisher

Gaseous nitrogen combines with gaseous hydrogen in simple quantitative proportions to produce gaseous ammonia. — Fritz Haber