Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior. – Henry Ossawa Tanner
If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other peoples, then that must feel pretty good. – Barbara Ehrenreich
Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself. – Andy Grammer
Every woman Ive had a relationship with has found this maddening the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when Im at home, I clam up and wont discuss anything intimate or personal. – Jarvis Cocker
By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools. – Michael N. Castle
