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Bessie Delany
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“When people ask me how we've lived past one hundred, I say, 'Honey, we never married. We never had husbands to worry us to death!'”
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“... I think I'm just as good as anyone. That's the way I was brought up. I'll tell you a secret: I think I'm better! Ha! I remember being aware that colored people were supposed to feel inferior. I knew I was a smart little thing, a personality, an individual — a human being! I couldn't understand how people could look at me and not see that, because it sure was obvious to me.”
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“When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he'd be washing dishes somewhere.”
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“I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change Bessie. And honey, that ain't easy either.”
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“I'm a hundred-and-one years old and at my age, honey, I can say what I want!”
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“It always seemed to me that white people were judged as individuals. But if a Negro did something stupid or wrong, it was held against all of us.”
Bessie Delany, U.S. dentist
(1891 - 1995)
Full name: Annie Elizabeth Delany.