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William Christopher Handy Quotes

You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.

William Christopher Handy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: November 16, 1873 - March 28, 1958

Topics

Heart Art Man Appreciate You Down

It's really important for me to look good before a race. I definitely think if I feel I look good, it makes me feel more confident.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Good Me Think Confident Feel Look

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

Childhood Balance Green Think Feel

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

Good Book Bad Rare Unusual Just

I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims.

Escape Being There Being Blocking

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

Think Feel Enough Dream Understand

I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.

Love Myself Day Parents Me Believe

I know there are parents who are very structured and organized and are certainly far more together than I am, it's just not me.

Soleil Moon Frye

Together I Am Parents Me Know More

There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal.

World Society Human Corner Arts

I never really liked weightlifting because there is no problem solving, whereas when I am fighting, I am trying to solve a problem, so I don't think about being tired. I box, wrestle, do jujitsu, run up sand dunes; every single day is something different so that I am mentally engaged. That's what makes me want to train longer.

Day I Am Tired Me Think Fighting

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

Generation Grandchildren Connect Dots

Dynamic activity and deep rest of the mind are complementary to each other.

Mind Rest Deep Dynamic Activity

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Beauty Disappointment You Clarity

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