Afro American Sunday Quotes & Sayings

If experience be consulted, it will be found there is no action, however abominable, that has not received the applause of some people. Parricide - the sacrifice of children - robbery - usurpation - cruelty - intolerance - prostitution, have all in their turn been licensed actions, and have been deemed laudable and meritorious deeds with some nations of the earth. Above all, Religion has consecrated the most unreasonable, the most revolting customs. — Baron D'Holbach

The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action. — Karen Joy Fowler

He softly kissed her lips. I'm going to rock your world tonight, and then I'm going to do it again. Only different. You're going to come undone, Sophie, every which way you can, and i won't stop until you do. — Robin Bielman

What was it that gave Ammu this Unsafe Edge? This air of unpredictability? It was what she had battling inside her. An unmixable mix. The infinite tenderness of motherhood and the reckless rage of a suicide bomber. — Arundhati Roy

There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection. — Andre Gide

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media. — Bruce Jackson

We're kissing in the rain.' Her voice was hard and soft at the same time. Like the velvet armchairs. Like the black rain inked on his hand. — Deborah Levy

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time. — Albert Camus

The answer - given again and again, as we shall see, in the New Testament - is that the transformation we are promised at the end of time has already begun in Jesus. When God raised him from the dead, he launched his entire project of new creation, and called people of all sorts to be part of that project, already, here and now. And that means that the steps we take toward the ultimate goal - the things which make sense of Christian living in what might otherwise be a long interval between initial faith and final salvation - already partake of that same character of transformation. — N. T. Wright

My two best friends are dead, which means they're great listeners now, but lousy as far as support goes. — Alex Adams