Quotes

“No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.” Booker Washington

“We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” Booker Washington

“No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.” Booker Washington

“If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.” Booker Washington

“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.” Booker Washington

“The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.” Booker Washington

“There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.” Booker Washington

“We must reinforce argument with results.” Booker Washington

“To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.” Booker Washington

“We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.” Booker Washington

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.” Orson Welles

“Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.” Orson Welles

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” Orson Welles

“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.” Orson Welles

“If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.” Orson Welles

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.” Orson Welles

“In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.” Orson Welles

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.” Orson Welles

“Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.” Orson Welles

“The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.” Orson Welles

“Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.” Orson Welles

“Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?” Orson Welles

“Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.” Orson Welles

“I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.” Orson Welles

“The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.” Orson Welles

“I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.” Orson Welles

“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” Orson Welles

“Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.” Orson Welles

“I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.” Orson Welles

“Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.” Orson Welles