"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

Time, Being, First, Washington

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"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

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"Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song."

Zoltan Kodaly, Hungarian Composer

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"Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy."

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"It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time."

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"Time management is a big part of the director's job."

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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

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"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach."

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"In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements."

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"Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children."

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"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

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"We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism."

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"Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question."

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"I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework."

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"The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath."

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"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."

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"The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina."

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"Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down."

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"King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian."

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"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."

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"The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters."

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