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

After two years at UCLA,

I decided to leave.

I was convinced that no amount of education

would help a black man get a job.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball,

I can only marvel at the many black players

who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because

they had nowhere else to go.

I cannot salute the flag;

I know that I am a black man in a white world.

In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919,

I know that I never had it made.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me...

All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

All right,

then,

I'll go to hell.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

Man was made at the end of the week's work,

when God was tired.

When red haired people are

above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

To refuse awards is another way of

accepting them with more noise than is normal.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

The first of April is the day

we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow;

there is no humor in Heaven.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered

either by themselves or by others.

There are several good protections against temptation,

but the surest is cowardice.

I never smoke to excess that is,

I smoke in moderation,

only one cigar at a time.

When a person cannot deceive himself

the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Grief can take care if itself,

but to get the full value of a joy

you must have somebody to divide it with.