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Letter "W" » Wilma Rudolph Quotes
«It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.»
«The triumph cannot be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.»
«I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.»
«I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles. They say things like they don't want men opening doors for them anymore, and they don't want men lighting their cigarettes for them anymore. Big deal. Black women have been opening doors for themselves and lighting their own cigarettes for a couple centuries in this country. Black women don't quibble about things that are not important.»
Author: Wilma Rudolph
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Big Country, black light, bunch, centuries, cigarettes, couple, liberation, lighting, old country, opening, quibble, quibbles, quibbling, rhetoric, styles, Tennessee, The Women, twelve, white woman
«My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.»
«When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God why was I here? what was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.»
Author: Wilma Rudolph
(Runner)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
gold medal, gold medals, I Tried, medals, transition, transitions
«I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.»
Author: Wilma Rudolph
(Runner)
«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.»
Author: Wilma Rudolph
(Runner)
| Keywords:
Black woman, fulfillment, glamour, husbands, jobs, like so, of necessity, romance, white woman, work out
«I had a series of childhood illnesses; scarlet fever, pneumonia, polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.»
Author: Wilma Rudolph
(Runner)
| About:
Childhood,
Illness
| Keywords:
brace, braces, bracing, fever, illnesses, Nine Lives, pneumonia, polio, scarlet, scarlet fever, sports, World Series
«The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.»
Author: Wilma Rudolph
(Runner)
| About:
Achievement
| Keywords:
accomplishment, gold medal, gold medals, medals, Olympic, welled
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