Pauli Murray quotes

“Hope is a song in a weary throat.”
-- Pauli Murray

Source : Pauli Murray (1970). “Dark testament: and other poems”

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“One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement.”
-- Pauli Murray

Source : Pauli Murray (1987). “Song in a weary throat: an American pilgrimage”, Harpercollins

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“Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights of the period that the impact is at once disturbing and satisfying.”
-- Pauli Murray

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“Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.”
-- Pauli Murray

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“What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor.”
-- Pauli Murray

Source : Pauli Murray (1987). “Song in a weary throat: an American pilgrimage”, Harpercollins

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“True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.”
-- Pauli Murray

Source : Pauli Murray (2006). “Pauli Murray: Selected Sermons and Writings”

#Equality Quotes #Ties Quotes #Diversity Quotes

“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.”

“A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.”

“I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.”

“All my songs are where I am.”

“Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces. As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us. In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won't dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.”

Source : Alan Cooper (1999). “The Inmates are Running the Asylum”, Sams Publishing

“I'm lost, but I'm hopeful.”

“It's a lot better to hope than not to.”

“We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.”

“I've fought hard and now I'm weary to the bone.”

“Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest.”

Source : William Watson (1936). “The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935”