Akokoro Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion. — Jeanette Winterson

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. — Alice Walker

Me. You're here for me, to love me, live life with me, be with me. If you're too tired, I'll carry you through every day until you can walk on your own again. — Jewel E. Ann

In order that life should be a story or romance to us, it is necessary that a great part of it, at any rate, should be settled for us without our permission. If we wish life to be a system, this may be a nuiseance; but if we wish it to be a drama, it is an essential. It may often happen, no doubt, that a drama may be written by somebody else which we like very little. But we should like it still less if the author came before the curtain every hour or so, and forced on us the whole trouble of inventing the next act. A man has control over many things in his life; he has control over enough things to be the hero of a novel. But if he had control over everything, there would be so much hero that there would be no novel. — G.K. Chesterton

You will see by this that no man should be judged by another here in this life, for the good or evil he has done. Deeds may be properly judged, whether they are good or bad, but not men. — Clifton Wolters

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. — Norman Douglas

In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish. — Mercedes Lackey

It's like being ready to pay full price for a top and then learning it's for sale.
No - it's like being ready to pay full price for a top and then learning it's free! — David Levithan

If you do enough things, you're going to eventually narrow it down to the things that really make you happy. — Lights

It is not enough to preach about family values, we must value families. — Hillary Clinton

Humans needed love to survive. Love was sustenance. Love was life. The more she poured into others, the more others could pour into her. — Gena Showalter