Quotes
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
At 46 one must be a misre; only have time for essentials.
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
Carter G. Woodson
When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
Carter G. Woodson
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
Carter G. Woodson
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Carter G. Woodson
This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.
Carter G. Woodson
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
Carter G. Woodson