top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South."
Standard
Customized
More
"When you share your moments of joy with friends, that memory lasts forever."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A true friend is a person that will shout at you when you're wrong, hold your hand when you fall down, dance with you during the good times, and stay with you during your ups and downs."
Author Name
Personal Development
"With your, love touch someone's heart, feel their soul, enjoy their bliss, share your joy, and then become their friend."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A best friend is someone that will stand in your storm and tell you the lightening is beautiful just to make you realize that your heart was worth getting soaked."
Author Name
Personal Development
"And say my glory was I had such friends."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Friendship is not about ships-no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they've recommended to you."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her."
Family
"You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun."
Black
"The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice."
People
"I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle."
Beauty
"I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely."
Life
"I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race."
Death
"Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town."
Thought
"My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest."
Ability
"My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals."
Money
"It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree."
Man
bottom of page