Carrasqueria Quotes & Sayings

My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka. — Rashid Johnson

The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties. — Mahatma Gandhi

She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried to speak and his mouth was over hers again. Suddenly she had a wild thrill such as she had never known; joy, fear, madness, excitement, surrender to arms that were too strong, lips too bruising, fate that moved too fast. — Margaret Mitchell

The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom. — Epicurus

Love proudly. Let it burn anything between you. — Pleasefindthis

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry. — Francis Bacon

This was all evidence of the tradition at work, of Homer being more interested in epic music than its meaning. — Adam Nicolson

Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority. — Millicent Fenwick

The human brain most resembles that of Jersey cows at about six months."* — Mary Roach