Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.
Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections.
I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.
My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.
Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.
No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.
As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.
A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
You know, I was at CBS News for 28 years. I may have run an unidentified source. Frankly, I don't remember.
Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
Love is giving with no expectations...Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
The doctor that acts out of love doesn't burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.
Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much
Do you realize that God expects you to consider that you are actually working for Jesus Christ on your job?
Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.
There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.
It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.
We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.
I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.
I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.
The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.
I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.
All of us assign different values to things, and not all of those values are going to line up with others'.
Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces every one of us at one time or another.
Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.
We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.
Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.
I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.
I think white women need to wake up and say, 'Not all women are white,' three times in front of the mirror.
Your family should be there. Your family should always be there. What does it say about you if they aren't?
I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.
Jonas. Their rock. Shattered into so many shards. Holding himself together through the sheer force of will.
No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.
I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?
Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories.