Cooter Davenport Quotes & Sayings

My life is not packaged,
Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged
Edges that cut even my friends. — Walter Dean Myers

Oftentimes, the way it seems to be is that our artists in particular point themselves out as spokesmen for a certain constituency in a community, and thereby place themselves in that vulnerable position. — Gil Scott-Heron

This is the currency of friendship, traded over years and miles, and I hope it's an even exchange someday. For now, I do what all best friends do when there's nothing left to say. We lie together in all the darkness, shoulder to shoulder, and wait for the worst to be over. — Emery Lord

This song is sweet. It is sweet. The heart dies of this sweetness. — Brigit Pegeen Kelly

We cannot and must not sit back and let the anti-biblical world system determine the prevailing values of our day. — Bill Bright

Totalitarian rule thrives on its subjects' ignorance of the extent to which the surveillance system is monitoring their lives. The possibility, rather than the fact, of surveillance is enough to generate fear, anxiety, and informal pressures to conform, to downplay dissenting opinions, to declare one's absolute loyalty. Thus an enforced culture of self-censorship emerges in communities that used to express their political opinions freely. — Arun Kundnani

I think it was important for me to introduce myself as an artist for the first time because I'm very proud of my past, it's all a part of my story, but this is who I am now. This was a really important thing to have an hour special that lets them in and kind of meet me for the first time, truthfully. — Jamie Lynn Spears

Most people probably didn't think I'd make it as a professional writer. But I couldn't follow their advice. — Haruki Murakami

Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance. — Jay Woodman