Optimism By African American Quotes & Sayings

I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked. — Melissa George

You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can't exist without you, you make me miserable. — Anne Rice

I'm single ... if girls like me, hey, that's great. I think that's awesome. — Scott Eastwood

I would be heartbroken if I ever thought that people in the Jewish community thought that Britain was no longer a safe place for them. — David Cameron

The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on the bookshelf at the back of my fifth-grade classroom, an adult book. I can remember the quality of the morning on which I read. It was a sunlit morning in January, a Saturday morning, cold, high, empty. I sat in a rectangle of sunlight, near the grate of the floor heater in the yellow bedroom. And as I read, I became aware of warmth and comfort and optimism. I was made aware of my comfort by the knowledge that others were not, are not, comforted. Carl Rowan at my age was not comforted. — Richard Rodriguez

Example is contagious behavior. — Charles Reade

Cress knotted her fingers in her lap. "I know you better than you think, Captain Thorne. I know that you're smart. And brave. And thoughtful and kind and - "

"Charming."

" - charming and - "

"Charismatic."

" - charismatic and - "

"Handsome."

She pressed her lips and glared at him, but his mocking grin had swept away any hints of sincerity.

"Sorry," he said. "Please, continue."

"Perhaps more vain than I'd realized. — Marissa Meyer

Data itself ... was tolerable. It was the constant nerve-web-expanding pain of context that would kill him. — Dan Simmons

You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity. — Henry Highland Garnet

Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership. — Nitin Nohria