Pauli Murray Quotes

#1. What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor.

Pauli Murray

#2. Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.

Pauli Murray

#3. Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes

James Altucher

#4. Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.

Walter Isaacson

#5. No one on this earth attains enlightenment anymore without an enlightened master as a guide, unless that person was enlightened in many previous incarnations.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Hope is a song in a weary throat.

Pauli Murray

#7. In not a single one of these little campaigns was I victorious. In other words, in each case, I personally failed, but I have lived to see the thesis upon which I was operating vindicated. And what I very often say is that I've lived to see my lost causes found.

Pauli Murray

#8. Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#9. One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement.

Pauli Murray

#10. Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time.

Karl Lagerfeld

#11. I think that Superman is the pinnacle of the DC Universe. Our feeling always was that you need to get Superman right. That was also our goal. We didn't want to ignore that this universe exists.

Charles Roven

#12. If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it.

Hiro Mashima

#13. I wanted to create something really aggressive and psychedelic

Lykke Li

#14. I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude - a feeling which increases with the years.

Albert Einstein

#15. Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights of the period that the impact is at once disturbing and satisfying.

Pauli Murray

#16. I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

Olga Kurylenko

#17. True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.

Pauli Murray