Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.
Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment
Regarding the idea of race,. . no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?.
To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.
To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.
We feel the need to emphasize with greater clarity the obligation for members of the Church to become more independent and self reliant.
I doubt that I will get involved with politics. That's something I don't have in me.
I have no relationship to Russia whatsoever.
When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.