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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. William Hazlitt
Faith You Win Victory Think Necessary
No truly great person ever thought themselves so. William Hazlitt
Great Thought Great Person Truly Person Themselves Ever
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. William Hazlitt
You Travel World Having More Road Know Than Conjecture Descriptions Traveled
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice. William Hazlitt
Strong Arises Exemption Fancied Which Prejudice
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. William Hazlitt
Edge Though Admiration Takes Contempt Off Familiarity May Breed
Learning is its own exceeding great reward. William Hazlitt
Great Learning Reward Own Exceeding Great Reward
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune. William Hazlitt
Love Angry Justice Envy Other More Undeserved Mixture Than Ingredients Deserved Among
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. William Hazlitt
Women Grace Beauty More Effect Than
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic. bell hooks
Love Justice Rights Country Our Rights Movement Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Totally Known Greatest Movement Social Ethic Rooted Social Justice Ever
Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other. bell hooks
Love Time Other Relationships About More Takes Since Know Knowing Loving Meaningful Each
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence. bell hooks
Society Supports Domination Any Based Violence
The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic of communalism that promotes the sharing of resources. bell hooks
Political Liberal Resources Classes Blacks Individualism Sharing Support Little Ethic Deeply
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women. bell hooks
Women People Focus Black Men White Group Other Out About Tends Had Identity Talked Existence Women Are America White Women Socialized
The people I love, I'm committed to loving for the rest of my life. bell hooks
Life Love People Rest My Life Committed Loving
I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words. bell hooks
Life Service Words Style Supports Contemplation Created
I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other. bell hooks
Tired You Women People Black Men Men And Women Other Never Support Like Know Get Acting Help Each
I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole. bell hooks
Women World Nation Think Everybody Our Impact Had Major Major Impact Movement Whole Lives
I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off. bell hooks
Service You Woman Will Black White Say Some Sees Purse She Off Get Goes Size Standing Coat Her Button
Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world. Ada Louise Huxtable
Time Day You World Drunk Become Few Clothes Summer Battered Those Kind Spirit Tensions Days Sheds Balm Belief Right Right Kind
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful. Ada Louise Huxtable
Saying Great Job Would Would-Be Excellent Like Dubious Undertaking Which Awful
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station. Ada Louise Huxtable
Today Nothing Station More Obsolete Built Up-To-Date Than Railroad
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks. Ada Louise Huxtable
Clearly Built Mock Endless Series Washington Palaces
The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people. Albert Murray
People Creation Blues Product Forward-Looking
A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song. Albert Murray
Song Jazz Melody Composition Traditional American Blues Tune Either Popular Chorus Based
The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed. Albert Murray
Nature Progress Jazz Musicianship Must Composer Be Prepared Written Simply Performer Execute Truly Score Contribute Expected Improvisational Orchestration Who Rehearsed Prepared Function Competent
The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and embrace, upon which the zoological survival of the human species has always been predicated. Albert Murray
Survival Dance Embrace More Joint Also Always Context Been Ballroom Represent Human Which Ceremonial Speaking Human Species Species Thing
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