Claude McKay Quotes
I know the dark delight of being strange,The penalty of difference in the crowd,The loneliness of wisdom among fools
Quotes to Explore
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
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When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
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That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it's raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when it rains.
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I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff writer at 'Memphis' magazine - focused on race relations.
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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
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No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
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I am attracted to the dark side of life!
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Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.
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Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
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I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a book. This never happened. The process was akin to blindly walking in the dark, feeling my way only by touch, and only recognising dead ends when I smacked into them.
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Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
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You are not the sum of your physical, mental, emotional life, but you are designed for the spiritual. The whole design of the human being is created to enjoy your spiritual life and not the material life. This is the basic thing human beings don't understand and that's why, if they knew this fundamental thing, they would seek their spirit first and they would not seek other things.
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SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year.
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Experience is a wonderful teacher, but one whose lessons come too late.
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I know the dark delight of being strange,The penalty of difference in the crowd,The loneliness of wisdom among fools
