Alain Locke Quotes

#1. The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard.

Alain LeRoy Locke

#2. Some of the other students were out on the grass in front of Alain Locke Hall, in pink and green, chanting, singing, stomping, clapping, stepping.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#3. When the headlines get black and foreboding, the sale of alcohol and barbiturates rises in the country, as millions try to escape from the grim realities of [such] dangers.

Billy Graham

#4. The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses ... Each generation ... will have its creed.

Alain LeRoy Locke

#5. We believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.

Keith B. McMullin

#6. Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

Alain LeRoy Locke

#7. Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.

Jeanne Phillips

#8. Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

Alain LeRoy Locke

#9. Can nothing change what is about to happen

Erin Hunter

#10. Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise.

G.K. Chesterton

#11. We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.

Alain LeRoy Locke

#12. I love you, he said flatly. I
love
you. Shall I elaborate? I have loved you. I do love you. I will love you. I didn't want to love you. I tried not to love you. I will undoubtably regret loving you, but
God help me
I love you
so much.

Elizabeth Peters

#13. The decision to believe is the most important choice we ever make. It shapes all our other decisions.

L. Whitney Clayton

#14. Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The patient is part of the surgical team here, perhaps the most important part, and above all, that's what makes neurosurgery different.

Sam Kean

#15. The presidency is not merely an administrative office ... It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#16. I don't believe in the no-win scenario

Randy Pausch

#17. All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.

Alain LeRoy Locke

#18. I find each project, although it's compartmentalized, informs me in some facet. I wake up everyday wanting to be informed.

Ryan Seacrest