Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
The world's a nettle; disturb it, it stings: Grasp it firmly, it stings not.
Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
We are our own fates. - Our deeds are our own doomsmen. - Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. . . . He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?
That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.
No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.
She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.
DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper - the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort.
It seems acceptable today to scream for revolution, without any concept of what will follow it. This is just what the forces at large want, for who will follow a man who doesn't know where he's going?
As a model, part of my job is to be critiqued physically.