Afrocentric Woman Quotes & Sayings

He told me that a German doctor named Wolff figured it out in the 1800s by studying X-rays of infants' hips as they transitioned from crawling to walking. "A whole new evolution of bone structure takes place to support the mechanical loads associated with walking," said Lang. "Wolff had the great insight that form follows function." Alas, Wolff did not have the great insight that cancer follows gratuitous X-raying with primitive nineteenth-century X-ray machines. — Mary Roach

Turkeys begrudge eagles when they spread their wings to fly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Time is a terrible thing because it can erase both joys and pains. — Gosho Aoyama

I've stayed true to my music and I sing heartfelt songs with a message. — Donell Jones

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good — Swami Vivekananda

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too. — Elmore Leonard

He killed my soul, which should be a crime. Actually, it is a crime. According to me, at least. — Gillian Flynn

Our primate ancestors was the development of a larger cerebral cortex as well as the development of increased volume of gray-matter tissue in certain regions of the brain.32 This change occurred, however, on the very slow timescale of biological evolution and still involves an inherent — Ray Kurzweil

If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it. — Patrick Ness

Wisdom married to immortal verse. — William Wordsworth