10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

I'm not the one who made you cry;

your performance made me cry.

Save your tears for the pillow.

Everyone’s replaceable.

Everything has its wonders,

even darkness and silence,

and I learn,

whatever state I may be in,

therein to be content.

Literature is my Utopia.

I am only one,

but still I am one.

I cannot do everything,

but still I can do something.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Alone we can do so little;

together we can do so much.

The best and most beautiful things in the world

cannot be seen or even touched

they must be felt with the heart.

Why do you all push us around?

Whatever my individual desires were to be free,

I was not alone.

There were many others who felt the same way.

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913.

I was allowed to read.

My mother, who was a teacher,

taught me when I was a very young child.

The first school I attended was a small building

that went from first to sixth grade.

There was one teacher for all of the students.

There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

All I was doing was trying to get home from work.

There is just so much hurt,

disappointment,

and oppression one can take...

The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

Racism is still with us.

But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet,

and,

hopefully,

we shall overcome.

I'm tired of being treated like a second

class citizen.

I looked up my family tree and found out

I was the sap.

I drink too much.

The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

When I played in the sandbox,

the cat kept covering me up.

I met the surgeon general

he offered me a cigarette.