Sarah Louise Delany Quotes

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I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

Sarah Louise Delany

The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any credit cards! We don't spend what we don't have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?

Sarah Louise Delany

Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.

Sarah Louise Delany

When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'

Sarah Louise Delany

Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?

Sarah Louise Delany

Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.

Sarah Louise Delany

Sarah Louise Delany

Sarah Louise Delany

Born: September 19, 1889

Died: January 25, 1999 (aged 109)

Bio: Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany was an African-American educator and civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with her younger sister Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, of the New York Times bestselling oral history, Having Our Say, by journalist Amy Hill Hearth.

Known for:

The Delany sisters' book of everyday wisdom (1994)
On My Own at 107 (1996)

Sarah Louise Delany on Wikipedia

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