“I couldn't help being a part of my race. A race that continued to be tough. It was possible for me to accept myself, finally, only when I realized-emotionally-that poetry is tough too, that a poem can contain as much fury and power as a fist or a blackjack.”
Alden Nowlan
“If Life had a rewind button , we would never move forward”
Matthew Buchanan
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other”
Walter Elliot
“There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!”
Mark Twain
“My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: "Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus."”
Carl Lewis
“The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.”
Sir Walter Scott
“Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society”
Marian Wright Edelman
