Color Barrier Quotes & Sayings

I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier. — Pink

If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron. — Dov Davidoff

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived ... It's in how they make us of what life has shown them. — Brandon Sanderson

Was there ever a time you thought - I am doing this on purpose, I am fucking up and I don't know why. — A.M. Homes

Annabeth has my number,' Sadie said. 'Which, honestly, brother, is a much easier solution than writing invisible hieroglyphs on your friend's hand. What were you thinking? — Rick Riordan

Josh wanted to be the one to break the color barrier. When the Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson he knew it was over for him. He wasn't going to make the big leagues, and he also knew that because of his health and his bad knees his career with the Grays was about over. He didn't know what to do with himself. They say a man can't die of a broken heart, and I guess that's true. But I'll tell you this, all of this sure lessened Josh's will to keep going, to keep fighting to stay alive. — Ted Page

There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it. — Seth Godin

You have to admit, his voice gets you wetter than a cucumber in a women's prison — Nicole Reed

She forgot the small detail of the business she wanted to engage him on. She enjoyed saying no to him, repeatedly. Refusal was probably a new experience for him, too, but it was hard to tell. — A.W. Exley

The English remained paralysed by their own rivalries until the following April, at which point Aethelred made an invaluable contribution to the war effort by dropping dead, clearing the way for Edmund to succeed him. — Marc Morris

So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: hell is other people. — Jean-Paul Sartre

She did what she could for him. She kissed him in return. She lost her breath and both her hearts, and finally Turned to smoke and back. — Shana Abe

Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief; Give me but You; it is enough just so. — Ruth Graham

You know that love
Will creep in service where it cannot go. — William Shakespeare

The craziest, most selfish act is to commit suicide. When you kill yourself, you kill others. — Jenny Joseph

by my parents, career, and a possible future without a man; weighed heavily on my mind. — Marques Lewis

I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball. — Harrison Ford

I'd confused need with love and love with sacrifice. — Gail Caldwell