"Black women . . . work because their……" — Wilma Rudolph
"Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity."
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32 Quotes by Wilma Rudolph
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The triumph can't be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying…
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Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.
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Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how…
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I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
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It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what…
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My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
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The triumph can't be had without the struggle.
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'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in…
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But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.
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I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.
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By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.
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When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What…
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
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