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Alain Locke: The pulse of...

Alain Locke: The pulse of...

The pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem.

Source: The New Negro,...

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Martin Delany: Our elevation must...

Martin Delany: Our elevation must...

Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If...

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Alain Locke: Art must discover...

Alain Locke: Art must discover...

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

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Laurence Sterne: Tis known by...

Laurence Sterne: Tis known by...

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause -- and of obstinacy in a bad one.

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Widow is a...

Widow is a...

Widow is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means empty. I have been empty too...

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Auguste Renoir: In painting, as...

Auguste Renoir: In painting, as...

In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably...

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Answer them [critics]...

Answer them [critics]...

Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . ....

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John Fletcher: Drink to-day, and...

John Fletcher: Drink to-day, and...

Drink to-day, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do 't to-morrow.


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Charles Kingsley: He was one...

Charles Kingsley: He was one...

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use...

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After my husband...

After my husband...

After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach . . . Poke a straw through the...

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Auguste Renoir: I've been forty...

Auguste Renoir: I've been forty...

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

Source: In...

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The groundhog is...

The groundhog is...

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

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Middle age: when...

Middle age: when...

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

Source: In...

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Millicent Fenwick: Women are on...

Millicent Fenwick: Women are on...

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

Source:...

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Charles Simmons: Both mind and...

Charles Simmons: Both mind and...

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of...

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William Makepeace Thackeray: Let the man...

William Makepeace Thackeray: Let the man...

Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world...

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Paula Nelson: Women's battle for...

Paula Nelson: Women's battle for...

Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to...

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Edna St Vincent Millay: Pity me that...

Edna St Vincent Millay: Pity me that...

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turn.


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Emile M Cioran: The history of...

Emile M Cioran: The history of...

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

Source: In...

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Al Unser, Jr: Dad taught me...

Al Unser, Jr: Dad taught me...

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

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