Quotes About Mary Church Terrell

#1. While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

Mary Church Terrell

#2. You can deal with the loneliness one night at a time. But what you can't deal with is the idea of loneliness, the fear of it.

Geneen Roth

#3. As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head

Mary Church Terrell

#4. Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.

James Rosenquist

#5. A white woman has only one handicap to overcome - that of sex. I have two - both sex and race ... Colored men have only one - that of race. Colored women are the only group in this country who have two heavy handicaps to overcome, that of race as well as that of sex.

Mary Church Terrell

#6. Stop using the word 'Negro.' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else ... I am an African-American.

Mary Church Terrell

#7. We worship the same God and we carry the same sins.

Kameron Hurley

#8. Nobody wants to know a colored woman's opinion about her own status of that of her group. When she dares express it, no matter how mild or tactful it may be, it is called 'propaganda,' or is labeled 'controversial.' Those two words have come to have a very ominous sound to me.

Mary Church Terrell

#9. We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

Kristin Hersh

#10. I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which had not circumscribed and handicapped me on account of my race, that had allowed me to reach any height I was able to attain.

Mary Church Terrell

#11. It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

Malcolm Gladwell

#12. Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it towards some overwhelming question

T. S. Eliot

#13. Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

Mary Church Terrell

#14. It is only through the home that a people can become really good and truly great ...

Mary Church Terrell

#15. Mastery ... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

Yvon Chouinard

#16. Some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure and the fomentors of discord take a fierce exception to the Sermon on the Mount.

Mary Church Terrell

#17. So-called 'sustainable development' ... is meaningless drivel.

James Lovelock

#18. Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.

Theodore Roosevelt

#19. Giving Cristiano that much time and space on the ball is like giving Dracula the keys to the blood bank

Ray Hudson

#20. Please stop using the word "Negro." ... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.

Mary Church Terrell

#21. Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.

Agnes Denes

#22. People once considered that religions were obsolete and that material science would solve all human problems. Then they have become disillusioned with materialism and machinery and have realized that spiritual sciences are also indispensable for human welfare.

Dalai Lama

#23. To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

Mary Church Terrell

#24. A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

Sting

#25. Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

Flannery O'Connor