Josephine Baker Quotes
Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.
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The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
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You don't talk to terror organizations!
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The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
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And thus He mused: 'From here, indeedShall we strike terror in the Swede?And here a city by our laborFounded, shall gall our haughty neighbor;'Here cut' – so Nature gives command –Your window through on Europe; standFirm-footed by the sea, unchanging!
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An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
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It gives you hope in salvation and perspective in the life that we live today. It's nice to know there's good out there in a world full of terror and evil.
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We should fight terror, by all means, but not at the cost of cutting off any chance of talks with the pragmatists.
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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
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He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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They wanted me for short relief, ... I joined them in St. Louis and they promptly lost seven in a row. I never pitched because they were never ahead.
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The most terrible of all things is terror.
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Right now, we do not act as a true society. We act as a world under terror, just scrambling to survive.
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Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
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The terror drifted over georgetown like the sun over a blind mans eyes
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The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.
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This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.
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The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer reactions and have more immediately practical implications than moral judgments about the past.
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It's funny how the world works, how we win and lose, how we can never really know what's ahead though we never stop planning. How we survive and move on. There's a sadness that comes with survival, but also more joy to be had.
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I look at the newspapers, and I cannot believe most of the stories I read. Bernie Madoff, who actually screwed millions of people for billions of dollars, it's just unbelievable what he got away with and how long it took for him to be exposed. A guy like that should be hanged.
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Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.
