Black Like Me Sparknotes Quotes & Sayings

At every point I wished that I was born English. They need to make it colder in here. You could hang meat in this room. But, yeah ... I grew up in a very English household. My folks were from Liverpool. I've said this before, but there is nothing more English than an Englishman that no longer lives in England. — Mike Myers

Hate yearned to destroy and sought to forget, but love could not. Love strove creatively towards days that had yet to come. — Richard Wright

16 In any case, we should live up to whatever truth we have attained. — Anonymous

You know, I grew up with brothers so I'm used to being the only girl. — Kyra Sedgwick

Plastic gods are safe. Plastic gods don't mess with you. Plastic gods don't matter much; they fit in a small crevice of the life you want, the life you were planning to have. And when everything in life is working . . . plastic gods feel like enough. — Jennie Allen

Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless. — Mark Levin

The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters. — Eugene Delacroix

One who experiences prasantta [blissful happiness] within, he will have prasantta [blissful happiness] externally. The mind is a mirror (reflection) for the external. — Dada Bhagwan

I promise you that I will not call. I have called you enough, and woken you enough times, in the years when we were together and in the years since then. But there are nights now in this strange, flat and forsaken place when those sad echoes and dim feelings come to me slightly more intensely than before. They are like whispers, or trapped whimpering sounds. — Colm Toibin

Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence.
Stay there until you see you're looking at the light
with infinite eyes. — Rumi

The tenet of the philosopher that for each man there was only one perfect friend; — Mary Renault

The holy country is occupied by holy citizens. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars.The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will-power to develop themselves. So choose to be among the few today. — Chris Kirubi