Bessie Coleman quotes

Bessie Coleman quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.”
“Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.”
“Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.”
“A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.”
“I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “The End Of Alice”, p.149, Granta Books
“Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.”
“I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.”
“Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!”

Source : Ada Leverson (1907). “The Twelfth Hour”
“Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black slavery, and YET praise the benefits to Germans or Whites??? This convenient ambiguity at the expense of animals is unacceptable!!!”
“The material of typography is the black, and it is the designerâ€™s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.”

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