Quotes & Sayings About Being A Strong Independent Black Woman

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922] — Franz Kafka

Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul. — Pete Hamill

But now my gracious numbers are decay'd, And my sick muse doth give another place. I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument Deserves the travail of a worthier pen; — William Shakespeare

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore. — Larry McMurtry

Historians have generally described the coming of industrialization in terms of changes in paid work. The transformation has been framed as one from a community of comparatively independent producers to a class of wage workers. — Jeanne Boydston

Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend. — Marc Bolan

Faith - or not faith - I don't know what it is - but this feeling has come just as imperceptibly through suffering, and has taken firm root in my soul. — Leo Tolstoy

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.8 — John Eldredge

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal. — Elie Wiesel

furniture polish: 16 parts beeswax, 4 parts resin, 1 part Venice turpentine, — Donna Tartt

Standing there on his new perch, Sham was overwhelmingly bored of feeling overwhelmed. The more he worked, he realized, the quicker he worked. — China Mieville

It's not easy to speak of nonexistence, even if you've already commissioned your tomb. — Hilary Mantel

Jesus said, 'Greater things of these you shall do ... ' Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character. — Ravi Zacharias

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. — Luciano Pavarotti

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time. — Dionne Warwick