Top 15 Talented Tenth Quotes
#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. I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
Bob Schaffer
#4. Revolution cannot really be conquered... If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow. Tomorrow performs its work irresistibly, and it does it from today.
Victor Hugo
#5. And he wore high-heeled boots and spurs to prove he was not a laboring man.
John Steinbeck
#7. When you're young, you have all these things to worry about - should
you go there, what about your mother. And you worry, and try to decide, but
then something else comes up. It's much easier to just plain decide. Never
mind - nothing is going to change your mind.
Richard Feynman
#8. My daughter and I have this thing we call a PMA: 'perfect moment alert.' I try to really notice when we're having a PMA.
Nina Jacobson
#9. I knew your father. I hated him."
"That surprises me your Majesty." Loki smiled broadly at her. "My father was a stone-cold jerk. That sounds like your taste exactly.
Amanda Hocking
#10. The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#11. When 'Being Rushed' is the problem ... Rushing is never the solution.
Bill Crawford
#12. According to Robert, his friend Moses was a soldier in the first war, as he described it. He fought Indians and soldiers in red coats.
Nancy B. Brewer
#13. The Russian anti-gay campaign, which associates European and American power with the hidden hand of the gay international, was targeted to the Muslim world as well as to domestic constituencies. These
Timothy Snyder
