My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget: A Collection of Quotations by People of Color.When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow. --Ethiopian proverb proverb, short statement of wisdom or advice that has passed into general use. More homely than aphorisms, proverbs generally refer to common experience and are often expressed in metaphor, alliteration, or rhyme, e.g. The national pastime in this country is not sex and it's not baseball. It's lying. --Dick Gregory, No More Lies, 1971 The witty, the clever, the jaunty jaun·ty adj. jaun·ti·er, jaun·ti·est 1. Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk. 2. Crisp and dapper in appearance; natty. 3. Archaic a. Stylish. b. Genteel. and the sleek--well turned phrases and truths neatly expressed. Such is the range of quotables by notables in My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget: A Collection of Quotations by People of Color Noun 1. people of color - a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) people of colour, colour, color race - people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important , edited by Dorothy Winbush Riley, assistant principal at Beard Elementary School Bob Beard Elementary School is an elementary school in the Northside Independent School District (NISD) of San Antonio, Texas. The principal is Mr. Mark Rustan and the vice-principal is Mrs. Kathleen Gorsche. in Detroit. My Soul is hefty with 7,000 quotations on 450 subjects (from ability to lynching to youth) by 700 people from the Americas, Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East and elsewhere. Riley has cited the great knowns as well as the unknowns. Pick it up to expand your own world view. |
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