Ten Things This Tuesday
I woke up knowing what my TTTT was going to be:
Ten African-American quotes:
1. "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others. . . . One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warrings ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." - W. E. B. Du Bois
2. "The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to." - Marian Wright Edelman
3. "I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. . . . Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife." - Zora Neale Huston
4. "We have come over a way that with tears has
been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the
blood of the slaughtered." - James Weldon Johnson
5. "I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." - Michael Jordan
6. "American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen." - Toni Morrison
7. "The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that's where it's at." - Jesse Owens
8. "Freedom is never given; it is won." - A. Phillip Randolph
9. "No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around." - Bessie Smith
10. "When I found I had crossed that line, [on her first escape from slavery, 1845] I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything." - Harriet Tubman
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