Afdlin Shaukis Quotes & Sayings

I don't do well without you," he said. "Who I was before
I never want to be that person again. But I told you when I took you away from here that when everything was over, it would be your choice. You would get to choose where you wanted to go and who you wanted to be. — Alexandra Bracken

In 1965, as Ralph Gleason has reported, when Martin Luther King's march on Selma, Alabama, was brutally attacked by local and state constabulary, Louis Armstrong, then in Copenhagen, said after watching the carnage on television, "They would beat Jesus if he was black and marched. — Nat Hentoff

I tried to see that every picture was better-looking than the person. — James Van Der Zee

The folks who lived before me have done so much for me that I want to show my gratitude by doing something for the folks who will live after me. — L.M. Montgomery

A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million. — Don DeLillo

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. — Randall Robinson

When we're intentional about what we watch, it's a lot more interesting to watch it. — Jessica N. Turner

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself. — David Alan Grier

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then
we elected them. — Lily Tomlin

The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The vague expression was gone from his eyes - I had a feeling it was gone forever. — Dodie Smith

A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn't worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts. — Pink

Animals howl, he had been told, to declare their existence. — Dave Eggers

And is there any reason, we ask as we shut the book, why the perspective that a plain earthenware pot exacts should not satisfy us as completely, once we grasp it, as man himself in all his sublimity standing against a background of broken mountains and tumbling oceans with stars flaming in the sky? — Virginia Woolf