Afrofuturism Books Quotes & Sayings

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. — Nhat Hanh

I don't deserve her." I cleared my throat. "But I want her anyways. — Rachel Van Dyken

I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate toilet. — Rose George

Lost serie are full of depression I think or there is some kind of like this... I don't know up to where I could get... but I will try my best. — Deyth Banger

I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue. — Meg Ryan

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right. — Lance Reddick

When dealing with Arab society, [we are dealing with] a production system that is in competition with others (and not with a theoretical opposition between specific economic rationalities), a social structure that must at all times prove its viability in the world arena (and not with its inner logic, which is theoretically as total, as elegant, and plausible as that of any other society whatever), a practical politics that is in perpetual disequilibrium (and not with elaborate theories about the best form of government), a language that must constantly prove its creativity and capacity for adaptation in competition with other languages in an accelerating evolutionary situation (and not with a theory of the language at a given moment of its evolution). — Abdallah Laroui

I used to feel spiritually inferior because I had not experienced the more spectacular manifestations of the Spirit and could not point to any bona fide "miracles" in my life. Increasingly, though, I have come to see that what I value may differ greatly from what God values. Jesus, often reluctant to perform miracles, considered it progress when he departed earth and entrusted the mission to his flawed disciples. Like a proud parent, God seems to take more delight as a spectator of the bumbling achievements of stripling children than in any self-display of omnipotence.
From God's perspective, if I may speculate, the great advance in human history may be what happened at Pentecost, which restored the direct correspondence of spirit to Spirit that had been lost in Eden. I want God to act in direct, impressive, irrefutable ways. God wants to "share power" with the likes of me, accomplishing his work through people, not despite them. — Philip Yancey

He has Raynaud's syndrome — Patricia Cornwell

The suit was so clumsy, being pressurized, it was impossible to get two hands comfortably on the handle and it's impossible to make any kind of a turn. It was kind of a one-handed chili-dip. — Alan Shepard

I think, at a certain point, it's better for women not to have any alcohol because it can make your face, breasts and midsection get very bloated. — Sharon Stone

It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you. — Jodi Picoult