Top 11 Adelaide Hall Quotes
#1. I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers].
Lena Horne
#2. Sometimes you don't need words to feel better; you just need the nearness of your dog.
Natalie Lloyd
#3. The notion of redefining the deity into something that works for you is grotesque.
Julian Barnes
#4. Each time a woman has the courage to act and share her truth, she plants wonderful seeds. Each such seed offers freedom and power to those around her, and in this way we bring the world closer together and closer to peace.
Jodie Evans
#5. Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly next time you bring it in.
Frederick Lenz
#6. I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.
Maya Angelou
#7. There is no force inherent in living matter, no vital force independent of and differing from the cosmic forces; the energy which living matter gives off is counterbalanced by the energy which it receives.
William Thomas Councilman
#8. It wasn't a pretty sunset. The colors were as expected: violet clouds, bright orange and pink underneath, against the pale blue sky. But the clouds were high cirrus, wispy, and crossed with the contrails of F-16s, a colorful glowing mess. I said, It looks like God barfed a rainbow.
Jennifer Echols
#9. Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
Napoleon Hill
#11. Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
Horace
