Chenay Borja Quotes & Sayings

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed. — Henry Louis Gates

Honestly, I'm sorry you have no more power over me, but I'm not scared of you anymore. It's just not worth my time. — Embee

Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason. — Laozi

Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an array of mystery and a fleet of colorful characters spanning four centuries. This is a great summer read! — Michael Connelly

A writer's work is the product of laziness. — Jorge Luis Borges

When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to. — Zora Neale Hurston

As we are, so we see. — William Blake

I want to shake them for their ignorance and scream that their Sistine Chapel is filled with cracks. — Michelle Hodkin

Not so long ago people believed in ideologies, systems, and institutions to save all societies. Today, they have given up such hopes and have returned to relying on the individual, on individual freedom, individual initiative, individual creativity. — Dalai Lama

Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's a metabolic urge. That's all they've done their entire life is borrow money from rich people to seek public office. — George Will

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet. — Edward McKendree Bounds