Black Women Intimidating Quotes & Sayings

You're just going to be a Starter. The starting line is the only line you completely control. — Jon Acuff

What is Americanism? Every one has a different answer. Some people say it is never to submit to the dictation of a King. Others say Americanism is the pride of liberty and the defence of an insult to the flag with their gore. When some half-developed person tramples on that flag, we should be ready to pour out the blood of the nation, they say. But do we not sit in silence when that flag waves over living conditions which should be an insult to all patriotism? — Anna Howard Shaw

The fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading. — George Eliot

If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it doesn't matter. The camera always sees it. — Elena Anaya

No matter what spiritual path you've walked or what teachings you've followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself. The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well. All must be burned to ash, and then the ash must be burned. Then, and only then, is the Ultimate realized. — Adyashanti

In his mind Vaughan saw the whole world dying in a simultaneous automobile disaster, millions of vehicles hurled together in a terminal congress of spurting loins and engine coolant. — J.G. Ballard

We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets. — Alice Cary

You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values. — Bernadine Dohrn

I knew what I was doing, always! I just couldn't stop. — Padraig Harrington

Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil. — George Gordon Byron

In our childhoods we either get all the social and emotional and ethical skills we need to be well adjusted adults, or we don't. Some of us don't know how to tell someone we like them. A lot of us get depressed and get wasted. Why don't we do something that makes us feel better? Because we don't know any other way. When I didn't have enough skills I compensated with drugs and alcohol. It's like there was a hole in the wall and I put a poster over it. — Bucky Sinister

You're staring at me," Simon said. "Why are you staring at me? Have I got something on my face? — Cassandra Clare

The only thing we have to fear ... is audiovisual glitches at our annual event. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Visit to Africa reshaped my point-of-view of colonialism. It reshaped my point-of-view of my own sense of source, and my own place of birth. It made it more organic inside of me, because it placed me in a position where my job was to understand and to become more African. — Forest Whitaker

Musicians ultimately are who they are, they aren't actors, so as a clipmaker you have a responsibility to protect them. — Adria Petty