Cicely Tyson Famous Quotes & Sayings

The air had become heavy, not because it had greater substance, but because there was nothing left to breathe. — Louise Gluck

This is why Indians are thought to be stupid. They can't think, they don't know anything, they say. But we have hidden our identity because we needed to resist, we wanted to protect what governments have wanted to take away from us. — Rigoberta Menchu

Where Chanel came from in France is anyone's guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant - and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both. — Diana Vreeland

The system is broken. The doctors and the nurses can't do everything. The patients need human attention; the patients themselves need to be addressed, rather than just their disease. — Colleen Saidman

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness. — Andrew O'Hagan

Grant that I may experience the power of Thy Word before I deliver it. — Christmas Evans

Sometimes we do not realize how many people give a damn until something horrible happens. And sometimes we realize that those who should give a damn, whom we counted on giving a damn, sometimes really don't — Monika Basile