Defendre Au Quotes & Sayings

We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way. — John Steinbeck

When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight.
But to me it contains all of the history of oppression and resistance, of being close to the soil and the sky, of plain speaking. Of The Journey. — Bonnie Greer

I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still. — Paul Auster

I kicked down doors to show that Hiphop has matured. And it may be a little controversial. — Slick Rick

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life. — Julian Barnes

Dammit, woman! You're scent, your stupid bloody delicious scent lingering in every crevice of my body and my wardrobe, driving me nearly mad. Do you know what it's like to want something so badly, to have it so close, and still feel that it's out of your reach? Out of control? — Delilah S. Dawson

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English. — Bill Gates

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. — Oscar Wilde