Mudsill Quotes

#1. For Southerners, a white skin was the distinguishing badge of mind and intellect. Black skin was the sign that a given people had been providentially designed to serve as menial laborers, as what Hammond called the "mudsill" class necessary to support every society.

David Brion Davis

#2. Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

Shelby Steele

#3. In a moment, when I'm ready, I will turn off this computer and that will be it. This letter will be finished. A part of me doesn't want to stop writing to you, but I need to. For both of us.

Lucy Christopher

#4. Let's just keep asking ourselves this question: 'Is what I'm about to do strengthening the web of connections, or is it weakening it?'

Margaret J. Wheatley

#5. I'm not an angry kind of person. What I am is a principled person.

Dan Webster

#6. I've never been comfortable around groups of guys when it gets into the putting-down. My past being a kind of geek - it kind of turns into an attack on the weakest of the group.

Paul Feig

#7. Under the bludgeonings of fate
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#8. I was known for throwing knives.

D'arcy Wretzky

#9. I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a character on the page, instinctively, in a way, the better.

Rebecca Hall

#10. My first Indy 500 was one of my high points. I ended up qualifying fourth and I finished fourth. I had a win in Japan a few years later, and then qualifying for Daytona was great as well.

Danica Patrick

#11. We all have the ability to produce greatness in our lives.

Eric Thomas

#12. People in college, if you're getting recognized for getting good grades, you're finally famous. If you get recognized for playing the drums, if you're being recognized for making good ass beats, good ass raps, you're finally famous.

Big Sean