quotes of day Wednesday, August 26, 2026

“People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.”

“And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.”

“A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.”

“In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.”

“If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.”

“I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.”

“Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!”

“One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.”

“I can’t make this decision for you…this one’s yours. I want you to know, though, that I love you. And I always will. I know that doesn’t help, but it’s all I can do.”

“And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.”

“It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.”

“All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!”