Carmichael Quotes & Sayings

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy. — Stokely Carmichael

I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, resilient and glamorous. — Laura Carmichael

Give me the Love that leads the way The Faith that nothing can dismay The Hope no disappointments tire The Passion that'll burn like fire Let me not sink to be a clod Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God — Amy Carmichael

Manliness is not mere courage, it is the quality of soul which frankly accepts all conditions in human life, and makes it a point of honor not to be dismayed or wearied by them. — Amy Carmichael

Even though we must walk in the land of fear, there is no need to fear. The power of His resurrection comes before the fellowship of His sufferings. — Amy Carmichael

[Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of His work, whatever could distract or deceive or tempt other to seek anything but the Lord Jesus Himself she tried to eliminate. — Elisabeth Elliot

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me. — Stokely Carmichael

Cecil: "A cup of love is greater than a pitcher full of ambition. — William Carmichael

I want everything to be an honest extension of me. What better way than me talking? It's a direct connection with everyone. With film and television, you make great projects, but stand-up is the thing that is completely yours. — Jerrod Carmichael

We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them. — Amy Carmichael

There was no success that could make me more worthy of the gift. And no failure that could take it away. — Virginia Carmichael

All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson. — Amy Carmichael

If a thing is going to represent you, your vision, you should be involved in every aspect of that thing. I like my role as executive producer on anything probably as much as performer. — Jerrod Carmichael

Our enemy is more aware than we are of the spiritual possibilities that depend upon obedience. — Amy Carmichael

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position. — Stokely Carmichael

Reorientation means an emphasis on the dignity of man, not on the sanctity of property. It means the creation of a society where human misery and poverty are repugnant to that society, not an indication of laziness or lack of initiative. The creation of new values means the establishment of a society based on free people, not free enterprise. — Stokely Carmichael

Get into the Carmichael car, Michael Carmichael ... get into the Carmichael car, Michael Carmichael. — Stephen Fry

I've been really lucky because I've managed to become wonderful friends with a handful of very talented British designers. Christopher Kane has become one of my very good friends - also Erdem. Jonathan Saunders is another brilliant talent who's very kind. We all hang out. — Laura Carmichael

Broadcast television is designed to reach as many people as possible, right? There's an obligation that we as creators have to advertisers, and it is an advertising medium. — Jerrod Carmichael

I don't write the books --I am merely the typist. — Anne Carmichael

When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love. — Amy Carmichael

I didn't choose to like Chik-Fil-A - I was born this way. — Jerrod Carmichael

The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are always unexpected things, not great things that can be written up, but the common little rubs of life, silly little nothings, things you are ashamed of minding one scrap — Amy Carmichael

Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent. — Stokely Carmichael

God bless you and utterly satisfy your heart ... with Himself. — Amy Carmichael

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities. — Stokely Carmichael

I want that Sinatra type of fame. It's not the 'Whoever's the hot pop star at the moment' fame. It's the 'Walk into a room and everybody just kind of politely nods their heads' fame. Sinatra fame. — Jerrod Carmichael

What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him. Thus speaks every man and woman whose life has made more than a passing flicker in the spiritual realm. It is the life that has no time for trifling that counts. — Amy Carmichael

I'm not recognised much at all. — Laura Carmichael

I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of "I want to tell the people." — Nikki Giovanni

We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee. — Laura Carmichael

We knew our Father. There was no need for persuasion. Would not His Fatherliness be longing to give us our hearts' desire (if I may put it so)? How could we press Him as though He were not our own most loving Father? — Amy Carmichael

In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class. — Laura Carmichael

Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar? — Amy Carmichael

For the first time in almost a decade, who he was and what he wanted took precedence over how he looked. The man inside, who'd hidden from the world in hurt and anger, was almost completely gone now, and in his place sat Asher Lee - confident and uncertain, fierce and tender, protective, wistful, loyal, vulnerable, attractive, and complicated - made whole again by the love of Savannah Carmichael. — Katy Regnery

Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful! — Stokely Carmichael

Now you are deep in what seems to me a peculiarly selfless service. The spiritual training of children must be that. You work for the years you will not see. You work for the Invisible all the time, but you work for the Eternal. So it is all worthwhile. — Amy Carmichael

This exploded in me almost more music than I could consume. — Hoagy Carmichael

He hath never failed thee yet.
Never will His love forget.
O fret not thyself nor let
Thy heart be troubled,
Neither let it be afraid. — Amy Carmichael

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system. — Stokely Carmichael

If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power. — Stokely Carmichael

If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love. — Amy Carmichael

When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps. — Laura Carmichael

Slow motion gets you there faster. — Hoagy Carmichael

I've never met such a beautiful, clever, capable control freak I like more than you." (Jake Colt to Madison Carmichael, Fearless Love) — Kate Kadence

We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into the open air, look up into the depths of the sky, or out upon the wideness of the sea, or on the strength of the hills that is His also; or, if bound in the body, go forth in the spirit; spirit is not bound. Give Him time and, as surely as dawn follows night, there will break upon the heart a sense of certainty that cannot be shaken. — Amy Carmichael

For if Chloe likes Olivia and Mary Carmichael knows how to express it she will light a torch in that vast chamber where nobody has yet been. — Virginia Woolf

Ragtime was my lullaby. — Hoagy Carmichael

He said "Love ... as I have loved you." We cannot love too much. — Amy Carmichael

Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammed, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael, Amiri Baraka and other black male leaders have righteously supported patriarchy. They have all argued that it is absolutely necessary for black men to relegate black women to a subordinate position both in the political sphere and in home life. — Bell Hooks

I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room - more or less - when there is a true song. — Amy Carmichael

If I hold on to choices of any kind, just because they are my choice; if I give any room to my private likes and dislikes, then I know nothing of Calvary love. Then Jesus said unto his disciples, If anyone will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me (Matthew 16:24). Please take all of me, Lord, that I may be wholly yours. Help me to hold loosely those things, even those blessings, that I have here, that I may be available for service to you at any time. — Amy Carmichael

He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence. — Virginia Woolf

I'm not alone, I think. Carmichael's height, his black T-shirt, black jeans, and dark hair feel like a protective wall beside me. But I am alone. I am completely alone. — Amanda Maciel

Performing for Dick Van Dyke once was fun. — Jerrod Carmichael

God, harden me against myself! — Amy Carmichael

If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love. — Amy Carmichael

I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised. — Laura Carmichael

Eddie Murphy did '48 Hrs.' because that was the only movie offered to him. And he killed it. Bill Cosby did 'I Spy' because that was the TV show he was offered. But now, there are networks dedicated to comedy, and the Internet ... it's so easy for comedians to not do things that aren't true to them. — Jerrod Carmichael

Our loving Lord is not just present, but nearer than the thought can imagine - so near that a whisper can reach Him. — Amy Carmichael

I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial. — Hoagy Carmichael

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then. — Stokely Carmichael

I knew I wanted to do a show on NBC - it's rooted in its history; it's part rooted in nostalgia and part rooted in the potential of it. For me, there was no other choice. — Jerrod Carmichael

All I could think about while driving after you was how it was about to happen all over again and that I would never be able to feel your warm skin under my hands or look into your beautiful blue eyes, or tell you how much I love you. — Michelle Madow

Our prayers for the evangelization of the world are but a bitter irony so long as we only give of our superfluity and draw back before the sacrifice of ourselves. — Amy Carmichael

It sucks because you're trying to do the right thing, but the result isn't showing it. You're at the stage where good intentions meet crappy abilities. Welcome to my first eleven months as a vampire." "You've only been a vampire for ten months." "My point exactly. — Chloe Neill

I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well. — Laura Carmichael

It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates — Amy Carmichael

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. — Stokely Carmichael

For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted. — Amy Carmichael

Boy, you don't know when the hell to shut up!" Lance sat back miserably, staring up at Asher, every bit of piss and vinegar gone. "Listen up, Lance. This is the last time I'll talk nice to you before I make your face look like a copy of mine. You're not filing anything. Not against me. Not against her. If you ever dare to bother Savannah again, I will find Serena Shepherd, and I will pay whatever it takes to bring her back to Danvers and have her corroborate every word Savannah Carmichael says about you. So unless you want to be known as the county rapist and be taking it up the ass in lockup for the next decade, you will leave this alone and you will never go near Savannah Carmichael again. You hear me, you goddamned rapist?" "I hear you. I hear," Lance mumbled, slumping back in his chair, utterly defeated. — Katy Regnery

Now you know where I got my name. — Stokely Carmichael

If I cannot hear "The sound of rain' long before the rain falls, and then go out to some hilltop of the Spirit, as near to my God as I can and have faith to wait there with my face between my knees, though six times or sixty times I am told "There is nothing', till at last there arises a little cloud out of the sea, then I know nothing of Calvary love. — Amy Carmichael

I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go. — Laura Carmichael

There are times when nothing holds the heart but a long, long look at Calvary. How very small anything that we are allowed to endure seems beside that Cross. — Amy Carmichael

Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself. — Hoagy Carmichael

No man can given anybody his freedom. — Stokely Carmichael

I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along. — Laura Carmichael

You didn't have to adjust under the watchful eye of Gabriel Keene." "You're right. I only had to adjust under the watchful eye of Ethan Sullivan. That was an utter cakewalk. — Chloe Neill

I'm worried about myself, not anybody else. I have my goals and I'm not worried about anyone. I need to take care of myself before I worry about someone else. — Ricky Carmichael

God forgive us! God arouse us! Shame us out of our callousness! Shame us out of our sin! — Amy Carmichael

Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them. — Stokely Carmichael

You sittin' here chained to your rockin' chair. — Hoagy Carmichael

I think of the love of God as a great river, pouring through us even as the waters pour through our ravine at floodtime. Nothing can keep this love from pouring through us, except of course our own blocking of the river. Do you sometimes feel that you have got to the end of your love for someone who refuses and repulses you? Such a thought is folly, for one cannot come to the end of what one has not got. We have no store of love at all. We are not jugs, we are riverbeds. — Amy Carmichael

Every work undertaken in obedienced to a divine command, whether the work be that form of conflict with the powers of darkness that we call prayer, or whether it be the action that follows, leads sooner or later to a new demand on personal devotion to our Lord Jesus Christ. — Amy Carmichael

For money to remain a valuable resource, you must master it, see its usefulness, and use it effectively. — Pamela Carmichael

The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you. — Hoagy Carmichael

I want you," Drew said. "Just you. I used to go through every day without thinking about the future, but with you all I can see are the possibilities of the experiences we could have together. — Michelle Madow

Woe is Merit, the immortal vampire with the never-gray hair and long legs and hot blond boyfriend. — Chloe Neill

Asher Lee," said Savannah breathlessly, standing up at the table, her knees wobbly from the force of her feelings. "What did you just do for me?" "Savannah Carmichael," he said, his face softening with the most tender, loving smile she'd ever seen. "I love you. Don't you know I'd do anything for you?" She — Katy Regnery

If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is probably that you have never heard God speak. — Amy Carmichael

I'm rubbish at Twitter. — Laura Carmichael

Have you given your child unreservedly to the Lord for whatever He will? ... O may He strengthen you to say YES to Him if He asks something which costs. — Amy Carmichael

In Capricornia there is a particular regional particularity and that is the Adani mine. We know that Adani, the massive Indian coal company, wants to develop the Carmichael mine.And people in Rockhampton know that and they know that the Greens are doing everything they possibly can to prevent the development of the Adani mine. — George Brandis

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself. — Stokely Carmichael

Different isn't good or bad. It isn't a qualifier. It just is. — Jodi Carmichael

I grew up in what my mom will always dispute as 'the hood.' She just doesn't like the name. But it had its similarities to any neighborhood like that. The all-black neighbors and the all-black problems and the all-black happiness. And I really loved it. — Jerrod Carmichael

I'm looking forward to getting in Reliant and trying to get a win there. That's a great venue and a wonderful race. — Ricky Carmichael

I work by instinct. You never hear anything new; when you hear advice that makes sense, it's something you already know. — Jerrod Carmichael

The marvel of our Bible never shows more marvellous than at such times, when you see it in deed and in truth the Sword of the Spirit, and it cuts. — Amy Carmichael