It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red,--it is not even t...he cause of woman v. man. Nay, 'tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As sure as time is--these mists will clear away. And the world--our world, will surely and unerringly see us as we are. Our only c...are need be the intrinsic worth of our contributions. If we represent the ignorance and poverty, the vice and destructiveness, the vagabondism and parasitism in the world's economy, no amount of philanthropy and benevolent sentiment can win for us esteem: and if we contribute a positive value in those things the world prizes, no amount of negrophobia can ultimately prevent its recognition. And our great "problem" after all is to be solved not by brooding over it, and orating about it, but by living into it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Very roughly, the drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion; what... is left is theater. Drama is immensely durable; after a thousand critical disputes, it is still there, undiminished, ready for the next wranglers. Theater is magical and evanescent; examine it closely and it turns into tricks of lighting, or the grace of a particular gesture, or the tone of a voice--and these are not its substance, but the rubbish that is left when magic has departed. Theater is the response, the echo, which drama awakens within us when we see it on the stage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late ...to alter events, or to make a difference in living.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So smooth, so sweet, so silvery, is thy voice As, could they hear, the damned would make no noise,... But listen to thee (walking in thy chamber) Melting melodious words to lutes of amber.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty.... Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express ou...r true opinions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear... the voice of the taskmaster. The small and the great are there, and the slaves are free from their masters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »