| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 12585 |
| QUOTATION: | I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion—keep you from eating, which I liked to do. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Septima Clark (1898–1987), African American civil rights activist. Ready from Within, part 1, ch. 2 (1986).
Clark, a native of Kentucky, was recalling the rather curious fact that she did not become angry in the days when “Jim Crow” laws still obtained in the South and she had to yield her bus seat to a white person. |
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