Black Professions Quotes & Sayings

The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical. — Honore De Balzac

You have me. Until the last star in the galaxy dies, you have me. — Jay Kristoff

Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between? — Buwei Yang Chao

They were married within a year and slotted themselves into their respective lifelong roles - my father was the lighthouse, my mother the keeper who wound the clockwork, polished the lenses, and swept all those rocky steps. My — Elan Mastai

I said it because it's true. It's the way — Lois Lowry

Better to be quirky alone than unhappy together. — Anita Hamilton

He likes those first moments, the first touch of naked skin against naked skin, of pressing into each other, his cock growing hard against Danny's. Each time it is like discovering that he's been starving in some way, a hunger or thirst in him that he's been only half aware of. Holding Danny tight, it's like finding something that he didn't know was lost. Something worth more than anything else in the world. Something he would have perished without. — Rock Lane Cooper

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school. — Henry Louis Gates

If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's an initial uprush of relief at first, then-for me, anyway- a profound dislocation. My old assumptions about how the world works are buried, yet my new ones aren't yet operational.There's been a death of sorts, but without a few days in hell, no resurrection is possible. — Mary Karr

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living. — Gustave Flaubert

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all? — Elbert Hubbard

I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days. — Willie Mays