Dave Chappelle Racial Draft Quotes & Sayings

I am like a blind pig when I work. — Ernest Hemingway,

The hypothesis [of Yahweh's Midianite-Kenite origin] is constructed on four bases:

[1] the narratives dealing with Moses' family and his Midianite in-laws;

[2] poetic texts which are understood to refer to the original residence of Yahweh;

[3] Egyptian topographical texts from the fourteenth to the twelfth century BCE dealing with the Edomite region in which the name Yahweh appears;

[4] and an interpretation of Cain as the eponymous ancestor of the Kenites and the mark of Cain as signifying affiliation to the Yahwistic cult community.

(p. 133)

(from 'The Midianite-Kenite Hypothesis Revisited and the Origins of Judah', JSOT 33.2 (2008): 131-153) — Joseph Blenkinsopp

I am I, and wish I wasn't"; — Anonymous

Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all. — Albert Camus

When she was this wild, he was a monster for her. He bruised her, took her blows, and fought to give her the pleasure she made him earn. — Debra Anastasia

We derive courage from love. Bravery borne from love trumps the ingrained desire for self-preservation. — Kilroy J. Oldster

[Christ's] character is twofold: like the head of the body in that he is regarded as God and yet comparable to the feet in that he put on humanity for the sake of our salvation, a man of passions like ours. — Eusebius

Hey, O Holy One, if the only people you want to read your book are the ones who already agree with everything in it, what was your point in the first place? Isn't the goal to reach non-believers? — Antony John

Tell me, can you see beauty? Can you let it renew your commitment to life, every day? I don't want to wait for death to be near to receive the beauty in my life. I want to be awed every day by the truth-pretty or painful-and let it open me to the beauty that surrounds me and draws me deeper and deeper into my own life. — Oriah Dreamer

A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio. — Laura Bell Bundy

Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy. — Dan Quisenberry

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to. — Shane Warren Jones