Ossie Davis Quotes

• Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.

  Ossie Davis

  Change, Art, Moving

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• La lucha fortalece. Luchar contra el mal nos da poder para luchar aún más contra el mal.

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  Motivational, Strength, Struggle

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

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  Joy, Black, Secret

  Ossie Davis (2006). “Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• We can't float through life. We can't be incidental or accidental. We must fix our gaze on a guiding star as soon as one comes upon the horizon and once we have attached ourselves to that star we must keep our eyes on it and our hands upon the plow. It is the consistency of the pursuit of the highest possible vision that you can find in front of you that gives you the constancy, that gives you the encouragement, that gives you the way to understand where you are and why it's important for you to do what you can do.

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  Encouragement, Stars, Eye

  Ossie Davis (2006). “Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• It is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the journey, to work for peace wherever we are at all times, because the liberty we cherish, which we would share with the world, demands eternal vigilance.

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  Freedom, Journey, Liberty

  Ossie Davis (2006). “Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• No hay ningún secreto para un matrimonio duradero: es un trabajo duro... Es un asunto serio y, desde luego, no apto para cobardes.

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  Hard Work, Long, Secret

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• Any form of art is a form of power.

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  Art, Form, Art Is

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.

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  Struggle, Appreciate, Important

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• Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from us forever.... Many will ask what Harlem finds to honor in this stormy, controversial and bold young captain - and we will smile. ...We will answer and say unto them, ‘Did you ever talk to Brother Malcolm? Did you ever really listen to him? ...For if you did you would know him. And if you knew him you would know why we must honor him.'

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  Brother, Farewell, Forever

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• College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

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  College, Get Back

  Ossie Davis (1993). “Purlie Victorious: A Commemorative”, Emmalyn II Prod Co Inc

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• It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not

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  Occupation, Busy, Lifetime

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• If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

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  Art, Children, Imagination

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