Ida B. Wells Quotes

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

Ida B. Wells

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931

Topics

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There's no point in using someone else's characters if you're going to turn them into your own vision. You have to be loyal to that person's worldview and sensitive to what they would and wouldn't have done with their characters, and how explicit or inexplicit they would've been.

Jill Paton Walsh

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I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their formative years, and you could trace all the lines.

Andrew Stanton

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I'm not driven. I love writing. My imagination is always working. I write when I have time, and life allows me the time.

Max Apple

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I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

Alva Noto

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I get a lot of mail from boys in detention centers, including one from a center where they only had a few copies of my novel. They had a deal with each other that they'd read a couple of chapters and then slide it under the door to the next guy. I think that's very cool.

Simone Elkeles

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My own daughter is a big fan of the 'Twilight' stories, the books.

Michael Sheen

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When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.

Doris Lessing

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I prefer to stay with Likud. I think I have to be in the party I managed to build.

Ariel Sharon

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

William Frederick Book

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To be in a Pixar movie is just great to begin with, and it has afforded me the opportunity to do a different medium because I have never done voice-over before. And I love it.

Phyllis Smith

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Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Swami Sivananda

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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

Pericles

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