Black Midwife Quotes & Sayings

In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object. — Thomas Jefferson

Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with. — Paulo Coelho

People think blood red, but blood don't got no colour. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream for that son of a bitch to come, the lone baby of 1785. Not when the baby wash in crimson and squealing like it just depart heaven to come to hell, another place of red. Not when the midwife know that the mother shed too much blood, and she who don't reach fourteen birthday yet speak curse 'pon the chile and the papa, and then she drop down dead like old horse. Not when blood spurt from the skin, on spring from the axe, the cat-o'-nine, the whip, the cane and the blackjack and every day in slave life is a day that colour red. It soon come to pass when red no different from white or blue or black or nothing. Two black legs spread wide and mother mouth screaming. A black baby wiggling in blood on the floor with skin darker than midnight but the greenest eyes anybody ever done seen. I goin' call her Lilith. You can call her what they call her. — Marlon James

People were hanging out in these places, and just like at cocktail parties, they needed something to do together. I thought, 'How can we fit games into someone's life?' — Mark Pincus

But when two people feel something, they ought to respect that enough to figure it out — Nora Roberts

In all ages, through all the varied experience of individuals and nations, knowledge has been the power which has civilized, elevated and dignified humanity. In those countries where progress has been most rapid, the thirst for knowledge has been most intense. — Sarah Moore Grimke

To be honest, I was sometimes even jealous of those starving children in India, because nobody ever told them to finish up everything on their plate. — Amos Oz

I'm telling you, until I shaved my head, I never realized how much heat is lost through the top of the head. I walk out in winter and it feels like I have an ice pack on my head. Unbelievable. — Bryan Cranston

God sends experience to paint men's portraits. — Henry Ward Beecher

He's so cute, I can't help myself. — Jerry Spinelli

Try harder every day to be better than the day before. — Julia Gillard

Talent works, genius creates. — Robert Schumann

Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. "Is this yours?" she asked "probably" said Paddy "she burns everything else" — Billy Connolly

Dream the biggest dream for yourself. Hold the highest vision of life for yourself. — Oprah Winfrey

Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little. — Theodore Roosevelt

When God loves you, what can be better than that? — Aretha Franklin