We had teachers, we had high school principals, we had people teaching in colleges and university in Tuskegee, Alabama. But they were told they failed the so-called literacy test.


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I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
DAMIAN LEWIS
For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
DAMIAN LEWIS
People need revelation, and then they need resolution.
DAMIAN LEWIS
In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain ...
DAMIAN LEWIS
No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro,...
EDMONIA LEWIS
Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.
EDMONIA LEWIS
I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a ...
EDMONIA LEWIS
I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.
EDMONIA LEWIS
Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather y...
EDMONIA LEWIS
My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian ...
EDMONIA LEWIS
There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the bough...
EDMONIA LEWIS
Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a wa...
EDMONIA LEWIS
Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come lat...
FLORA LEWIS
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of exp...
FLORA LEWIS
We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
FLORA LEWIS
I've been through the entire list of Polar problems. I knew it would be hard, but it's harde...
LEWIS CLARKE
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
LEWIS GRIZZARD
I don't want a tan, but I do love blushes in colors that give you that whole sun-kissed thing.
JULIETTE LEWIS
Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it'...
LEWIS BLACK
Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, ...
C.S. LEWIS
I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of ho...
ALAN LEWIS
I'm a huge reggae fan. I want to go to Jamaica and make, like, Bob Marley 'One Love' pos...
JENNY LEWIS
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't mer...
C.S. LEWIS
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'.
SINCLAIR LEWIS
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is b...
SINCLAIR LEWIS
Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me.
JAMAL LEWIS
I really liked watching Bo Jackson run just because of his size and his speed.
JAMAL LEWIS
We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.
LEWIS THOMAS
My first boyfriend was a surfer. We bonded over loving the sun, Depeche Mode, and The Cure.
JULIETTE LEWIS
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C.S. LEWIS
I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was marrie...
LEWIS GRIZZARD
Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
LEWIS GRIZZARD
When I started off with 'Dance India Dance,' even the TV show people thought it won't be...
TERENCE LEWIS
We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repai...
MERIWETHER LEWIS
I'm a late bloomer. It's taken me a long time to find my voice, and I think all the records ...
JENNY LEWIS
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, ...
C.S. LEWIS
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are
C.S. LEWIS
Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I&...
AL LEWIS
Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed i...
RAY LEWIS
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with beha...
LEWIS THOMAS
I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think y...
AL LEWIS
The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some d...
C.S. LEWIS
I can see through you
See your true colors
'Cause inside you're ugly
You're ugly like me...
AARON LEWIS
We're definitely excited to be playing the Jager tour. It's a huge deal for serious hard rock fans a...
AARON LEWIS
It's awesome. It's like an amusement park.
AARON LEWIS