Black Exceptionalism Quotes & Sayings

It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others. — Lord Acton

Every moment of our life is important. — Sakyong Mipham

He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature. — Denis Diderot

Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal. — Lord Byron

Take this one to the bank: birds are hatched from eggs and are always egg-shaped. Maybe there's no escaping the shape that molds you, no getting around how you got started even if you do break out. — Tupelo Hassman

Staying present and staying myself in the midst of others is important. — Matt Nathanson

From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request. — Pharrell Williams

Incidentally, am I alone in finding the expression "it turns out" to be incredibly useful? It allows you to make swift, succinct, and authoritative connections between otherwise randomly unconnected statements without the trouble of explaining what your source or authority actually is. It's great. It's hugely better than its predecessors "I read somewhere that ... " or the craven "they say that ... " because it suggests not only that whatever flimsy bit of urban mythology you are passing on is actually based on brand new, ground breaking research, but that it is research in which you yourself were intimately involved. But again, with no actual authority anywhere in sight. Anyway, where was I? — Douglas Adams

Simple code takes effort to design. It is not the same thing as overly simplistic code. — Anonymous

How can I be expected to be trapped for the rest of my life by a man frozen in time? — Alice Sebold

At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom - but I have them tailored. — Tom Ford

Go figure that. Joseph Morelli with a house, a dog, a steady job, and an SUV. And on odd days of the month he woke up wanting to marry me. It turns out want to marry him on even days of the month, so to date we've been spared commitment. — Janet Evanovich

I'm just a beat up old third baseman. I'm just a small part of a wonderful game that is a tremendous part of America today. — Eddie Mathews

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. — Denis Diderot

Democracy is about criticism. I didn't elect Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time. Period. The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does. And who he has at the table. And what he does to change the world - that's what's important. — Danny Glover