Quotes from authors passed in 1926
The air is the only place free from prejudices.
Bessie Coleman
Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
Luther Burbank
I refused to take no for an answer.
Bessie Coleman
I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.
Bessie Coleman
The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive.
Joseph McKenna
Colley Cibber 
Sergei Eisenstein 
Nafisa Joseph 
Eddy Grant 
Richard Hooker 
Thomas Wolfe 
Jeremy Piven 
Edith Piaf