Negroland History Quotes & Sayings

Who would ever care to do brave deed,
Or strive in virtue others to excel,
If none should yield him his deserved meed
Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will. — Edmund Spenser

I'm a car guy! I have a Ford Escape with Ecoboost for most days. On other days I love to drive my 356A, my early 911, or my '72 Dino GT. It all depends on my mood, what road, how far, and who's with me. — Freeman Thomas

On the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue. — Marsha Norman

Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that you use at all times. — Bill Eppridge

What are you smoking and why aren't you sharing? — Ann Bruce

You cannot put a bandaid on insanity. — The Paper Doll

But I complain about the police the way the rich complain; not the way the poor complain.
The difference is everything. — Aravind Adiga

I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other. — Belinda Jeffrey

Love like you'll never be hurt.. — William Watson Purkey

Nothing is wrong with you. You're not different. Everybody feels as bad as you do: this is just what writing a novel feels like. To write a novel is to come in contact with raw, primal feelings, hopes and longings and psychic wounds, and try to make a big public word-sculpture out of them, and that is a crazy hard thing to do. — Lev Grossman