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Door Quotes

Africans were desperate for legal help in government buildings: it was a crime to walk through a Whites Only door, a crime to ride a Whites Only bus, a crime to use a Whites Only drinking fountain, a crime to walk on a Whites Only beach, a crime to be on the streets after 11 p.m., a crime not to have a pass book and a crime to have the wrong signature in that book, a crime to be unemployed and a crime to be employed in the wrong place, a crime to live in certain places and a crime to have no place to live.

Every day, I'm standing outside trying to sing my way in: We are hungry, please let us in We are hungry, please let us in. After about a week that song is gonna change to: We hungry, we needsome food. After two, three weeks, it's like: Give me the food Or I'm breaking down the door. After a year you're just like: I'm picking the lock. Coming through the door blasting.

You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.

When a door closes you have two choices: give up, or keep going.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more.

If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it's either a new woman or a new car!

If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.

There is no key to happiness; the door is always open.

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.