Beah Richards Quotes

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

Beah Richards

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 12, 1926 - September 14, 2000

Topics

EducationPeopleSurviveHelpYou

I think in the history of basketball, people get hired and people get fired, but the main thing is people enjoy their careers and enjoy that they have jobs, so you really have to stay positive about everything.

Metta World Peace

PositiveHistoryPeopleBasketball

Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.

Amelie Mauresmo

WorldForwardYouGoForgetWay

Any dispassionate observer would recognize that on Day One, a start-up has no customers, and unless the founder is a true domain expert, he or she can only guess about the customer, problem, and business model.

Steve Blank

BusinessDayProblemCustomerTrue

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

Stephen Spender

GreatPoetryGoBeyondAlwaysHe

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.

Stella Young

EnvironmentDisabilityBecauseUse

In the 1970s, family history wasn't yet thought of a serious field for study. I was terrified of being laughed at by other historians. I called my book 'The Social Origins of Private Life.' It should have been 'As Pompous as You Want to Be.' Every sentence was academic jargon, and if I said X, I qualified it with Y.

Stephanie Coontz

LifeFamilyHistoryBookThought

Eating's pretty major; we have feasts at our house.

Trudie Styler

EatingHousePrettyOurMajor

Fame looks like a really hairy affair. But if it's part of the job, I'll figure out a way to deal with it.

Tom Everett Scott

JobLooksFameWayOutDeal

It's very difficult to think of new ways to blow things up!

Robert Wade

ThinkNewDifficultUpThingsVery

Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.

Ronnie Barker

MusicTodaySilencePresentJokes

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Brian Tracy

PersonRelationshipsMatureHallmark

The studios aren't lining up to make films about black protagonists, black people being autonomous and independent.

Ava DuVernay

PeopleBlackIndependentUpBeing

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