Quotes About The Talented Tenth

#1. Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#2. The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#3. The important thing is that if I can get to it and get back out again without being spotted, it will be a useful study aid in my newly chosen specialist field of getting-the-fuck-out-of-here-ology.

Nick Harkaway

#4. Rafe made people find something in themselves ... (he) made me dream, he saw what I could hope to be, and helped me hope it. He did that to everyone he knew - especially the ones he knew the best. - Danny

Randall Wallace

#5. The final mystery is oneself.

Oscar Wilde

#6. I found a lot of animators bring a lot of baggage to the party, just that there's a certain way of doing things in that world that's a little hard to unlearn.

Steve Dildarian

#7. I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Clint Eastwood

#8. I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

Anne Rivers Siddons

#9. I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#10. Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped it in the refuse for the bards and the poets to find, and mangle into yodeling paeans of love.

Kelley Armstrong

#11. Ten-minute period before you sleep and the ten-minute period after you wake up are profoundly influential on your subconscious mind.

Robin S. Sharma

#12. Never be too proud to go onto your knees before God.

Richard M. Nixon

#13. In living organisms, nucleic acid molecules are the only indefinite hereditary replicators, or at least they were until the invention of language and music.

John Maynard Smith

#14. If you were a brand, would you buy yourself or keep shopping?

Dean Del Sesto

#15. Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.

J.R.R. Tolkien