Aferry Quotes & Sayings

Using the Africanist model, each generation should take the family name to a higher place. My father's folks were sharecroppers in South Carolina. He went to Harlem. They were still poor, but they moved up. If my parents didn't do this and offer me this background, I wouldn't be here. — Ving Rhames

Can a mother commit a greater sin than ignoring her intuitions? — Nadia Hashimi

If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded and dreary moments can see a possibility of hope ... Each one of us has the chance to be a rainbow in somebody's cloud. — Maya Angelou

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing. — Amy Sherman-Palladino

It's my conceit that perhaps some diseases perceived as diseases that destroy a well-functioning machine actually turn it into a new but still well-functioning machine with a different purpose. The AIDS virus: look at it from its point of view. Very vital, very excited, really having a good time. It's really a triumph if you're a virus. See the movies from the disease's point of view. You can see why they would resist all attempts to destroy them. These are all cerebral games, but they have emotional correlatives as well. — David Cronenberg

I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it. — Laura Kightlinger

You dole out these stolen little pieces for yourself. You've been doing it for so long that you not only have no idea what you need, you have no idea what anyone else might need, either. No one is all or nothing. Grown-ups don't need someone to be all or nothing. — Mary Ann Rivers

Tomorrow is full of promise if you prepare for today. — Brian Michael Good

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free. — Joseph De Maistre