Sasseoir Vervoegen Quotes & Sayings

ON JUNE 25, 1890, W. E. B. Du Bois spoke at his Harvard graduation ceremony. He had now excelled, and had graduated from the most prestigious historically Black college and the most prestigious historically White college in the United States. He felt he was showing off the capability of his race. Du Bois's "brilliant and eloquent address," as judged by the reporters, was on "Jefferson Davis as Representative of Civilization." In Du Bois's rendering, Jefferson Davis, who had died the year before, represented the rugged individualism and domineering European civilization, in contrast to the rugged "submission" and selflessness of African civilization. The European "met civilization and crushed it," Du Bois concluded. "The Negro met civilization and was crushed by it." According to Du Bois's biographer, the Harvard graduate contrasted the civilized European "Strong Man" to the civilized African "Submissive Man."5 — Ibram X. Kendi

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright. — Victor Cousin

Skill is in your mind.
Talent is in your heart.
Genius is in your soul. — Matshona Dhliwayo

After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics. — Dikembe Mutombo

Every day I wake up and go to sleep, I'm thinking about beating Cub Swanson — Dustin Poirier

There was no one there. Which is to say there was someone there. Miss Wintertowne lay upon the bed, but it would have puzzled philosophy to say now whether she were someone or no one at all. — Susanna Clarke