Afro Braids Quotes & Sayings

Something like hope begins to burn in me and I try to snuff it out. — Laekan Zea Kemp

It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future. — Barbara Kingsolver

It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can do with natural hair — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Country taught me how to sing, it put me on a path. But I was never going to be locked into a formula. I don't want to be considered a current country artist. — Emmylou Harris

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite. — Bobby Orr

When things get unbearable, I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense. I open my eyes and I'm still where I was when I closed them to escape. Nothing's changed. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them. — Meghan O'Rourke

I think one of the reasons with problems with conversation on race is that this is such a deeply personal conversation that it requires trust and someone you know. — Jonathan Capehart

I will love you as a drawer loves a secret compartment, and as a secret compartment loves a secret, and as a secret loves to make a person gasp, and as a gasping person loves a glass of brandy to calm their nerves, and as a glass of brandy loves to shatter on the floor, and as the noise of glass shattering loves to make someone else gasp, and as someone else gasping loves a nearby desk to lean against, even if leaning against it presses a lever that loves to open a drawer and reveal a secret compartment. I will love you until all such compartments are discovered and opened, and until all the secrets have gone gasping into the world. — Lemony Snicket

We walk around carrying Closed signs around our necks while we press Open to our chests and wonder why the doorbell never rings. — Shinji Moon

On staring out at a gloomy day: First you must realize that it is the day that is gloomy, not you. If you want to be gloomy, too, that's all right, but it's not mandatory. — Nora Gallagher

The mild June nightbreeze frisking around their ankles and leafing through the pages of a magazine on the hall table. — Stephen King

Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it. — Larry Niven

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them. — Dan Glickman

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. — Susan Sontag

We can all agree that tea is good for the body. However, tea is very good for our hair too. — Monica Millner