Besting The Black Quotes & Sayings

Wild waves rise and fall when they arrive
And that's what makes the calm sea alive — Munia Khan

So I'm sorry about that. And when I made the comment about you just wanting to get laid. I know that's not what you want. You're better than that and you deserve more than that. I know that doesn't mean a lot, but it wasn't the right way, and in the end, it was fucking pointless because here you are and I can't stay away from you. — J. Lynn

Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living. — Philip Rieff

Being sexy is something inside, and not everybody has it. — Lara Stone

When things ain't going right, something is missing, which you only need to fill up.
Think about that. Alas !! — Bharat Budhani

Haydn's hand tightened around the stone as he stared at the ground. "I need to find my sister. To save her. Maybe then I will be worthy."
You will never be worthy.
..."I know."
...you are bound yet, and there is only one way you will ever be free. There is only one key for such chains. — Hope Ann

I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase. — Paul Putner

What you are is a human being, sensitive and alive, with genius inside of you. Not only that, but you are one of a kind. There has never been anyone like you before. You see the world in a unique way because you have unique gifts. That's the way nature made you. And it will feel like nothing less than fulfilling your destiny to follow those gifts to a rich and exciting life, full of purpose and meaning and enjoyment. — Barbara Sher

Still found it difficult to look him in the face. She smiled vaguely in the direction of — Mary Balogh

You are all a lost generation, Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night. — James Thurber

To not hope, to expect nothing, to dismiss at every turn - these had been her only protection against certain devastation. Disappointment could not ensue when one failed to gain what one had never wished for. — Galen Beckett

Black people have this thing about calling themselves apes and monkeys I know they get real (whatever) and I don't blame em'. But I feel like I'm a brute. I am, but I'm smart though. I'm not a dummy. — Sean Price

The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants. — Clay Shirky

Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies] — Ernst Junger