Alphabet Quotes

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913.

I was allowed to read.

My mother, who was a teacher,

taught me when I was a very young child.

The first school I attended was a small building

that went from first to sixth grade.

There was one teacher for all of the students.

There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion

can be permanently maintained.

The single biggest problem in communication is

the illusion that it has taken place.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time

like dew on the tip of a leaf.

It was wonderful to find America,

but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

A good teacher, like a

good entertainer first

must hold his audience's

attention, then he can

teach his lesson.

I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change.

I’m changing the things I cannot accept.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,

whose presence calls forth your best

Trust men and they will be true to you;

treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

The alternate domination of one faction over another,

sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension,

which in different ages and countries has perpetrated

the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.

But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

Courage is being scared to death,

but saddling up anyway.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless,

and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

We are willing to be misunderstood

for long periods of time.

The most incomprehensible thing

about the world is that it is comprehensible.

I have a reputation to uphold.

As a company grows,

everything needs to scale,

including the size of your failed experiments.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

Hard work and consistency always pay off.

Love is like flower

Friendship is like a

sheltering tree.