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“Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.”

Hard Dark White Half Painting Difficulty Tubes

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.”

Men Book White Bed Difficulty Old Man Moustache

Author:Sherwood Anderson

“My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified. ... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?”

“Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties...”

Way White Clear Difficulty Merit Modesty Assurance Discouraged Seeming Banner

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.”

Together Nations Black White Path Difficulty South Profit Indian Revolutionary Colour Wealthy Elites South Africa Rainbow Segregation

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety or the impossibility of his becoming white... the Negros will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties.”

Ifs Way White Becoming Difficulty Blind Train Convince Receiving Impossibility Outlets Alleys

Author:Carter G. Woodson

“It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.”

Wells Black White Silence Speech Difficulty Golden Silver Silence Is Silence Is Golden

Book:The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.”

Men Stills Age Games Wish White Brain Failing He Man Goodness Capable Balls Difficulty Golf Graves Clock Empires Governing Cuckoos Cuckoo Clocks

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reactionary- vested-interest-power. But then, I have great difficulty examining what men in general could possibly do about all this. In addition to doing the shitwork that women have been doing for generations, possibly not exist? No, I really don't mean that. Yes, I really do.”

Men Mean Has Beens Interest White Roles Generations Havens Difficulty Notion Feminist Revolutionary Embodiment Examining Reactionaries Vested Interests Radical Feminist

Book:Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement

Source: Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement

“White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.”

People Men Stills Seems Might Realizing Justice White Difficulty Social Justice Progressive White Man

Book:Land of the Spotted Eagle

Source: Land of the Spotted Eagle