Debapriya Datta Quotes & Sayings

After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn't want to be the last player from Africa. After my rookie year, I went to the league and talked about this, and they embraced my idea and started conducting basketball clinics in Africa, and that's when I knew I wouldn't be the last African. — Dikembe Mutombo

One thing has always kept me going - and it's not really courage or bravery, unless that's what courage or bravery is made of - is that sense that there are so many ways in which I'm vulnerable and cannot help but be vulnerable, I'm not going to be more vulnerable by putting weapons of silence in my enemies' hands. Being an open lesbian in the Black community is not easy, although being closeted is even harder. — Audre Lorde

And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over. — Jerry Garcia

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves. — Dwight L. Moody

I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. — Steve Zahn

You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next. — Barbara Kingsolver

Vivienne Westwood makes such beautifully structured clothes that are especially flattering if you are curvy. — Antonia Thomas

The full quote, if you've never come across it, is We — Anonymous

Everyone should say what they wanted. It saved time. — Lisa Gardner

Opinion is the death of knowledge. — Jennifer Stone

Heaven has no taste."
"Now-"
"And not one single sushi restaurant."
A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face. — Terry Pratchett