“I know how Lupe Velez felt. You fight just so long and then you begin to worry about being washed up. You fear there's one way to go and that's down.” KnowsWayLongFightingFeltWorryKnow HowOne Way Author:Carole Landis
“Every girl in the world wants to find the right man, someone who is sympathetic and understanding and helpful and strong, someone she can love madly.” MenWorldWantGirlStrongUnderstandingHelpfulSympatheticEvery GirlRight Man Author:Carole Landis
“I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.” HouseCareersEmptyIntentionStomachEmpty Stomach Author:Carole Landis
“I wanted to be a success on the stage, the screen, or the radio. So I saved my money and when I had bus fare and $16.82 over, I told my mother, Clara, I was going to leave home. She was heartbroken, but she believed in me.” HomeWantedMotherStageRadioScreensSavedBusHeartbrokenClara Author:Carole Landis
“Don't gossip- particularly about other women. Kindness is the secret to true femininity.” SecretKindnessGossipFemininity Author:Carole Landis
“Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.” MenHatePovertyBrotherInjusticeBurdenEvery ManEqual RightsFlourishingReins Author:Whitney M. Young
“You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program. That's our role.” AbleCoursesRolesProgramStrategyPlotProtestMarchConferencesResearchers Author:Whitney M. Young
“I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.” ThinkingMomentsVoiceHopelessCrucialAnxiousVoicelessCrucial Moments Author:Whitney M. Young
“I say we must have a movement that brings those troops home and launch a crusade to transform our school buildings, we launch a crusade to see to it that every citizen has adequate and affordable housing, we launch a crusade to make universal health care. We need not soldiers anymore in the world. We've had enough of them in western history.” WorldNeedsEnoughHomeCareSchoolMovementBuildingCitizensUniversalWesternSoldierHealth CareTroopsAdequateHousingAffordableHad EnoughCrusadesUniversal Health CareAffordable HousingSchool Buildings Author:James Lawson
“Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.” WorldFeelsAgeYoungSafeProtectionBirthdayYoung AgeJam60th Birthday Author:Trey Anastasio