Djana Bates Quotes & Sayings

When Toni Morrison said she writes the kind of books she wants to read, she was acknowledging the fact that in a society in which "accepted literature" is so often sexist and racist and otherwise irrelevant or offensive to so many lives, she must do the work of two. She must be her own model as well as the artist attending, creating, learning from, realizing the model, which is to say, herself. — Alice Walker

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving. — Robert E.Lee

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor. — Abraham Lincoln

That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out. — John Green

I found out water can be drunk straight. — Billy Carter

Often doubts will prevail. What a mercy it is that it is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you! What a sweet fact that it is not how you grasp His hand, but His grasp of yours that saves you. — Charles Spurgeon

The brilliance here is appropriation: space, form and interface combine to create a Jetsons sound machine. A dream of music access that just hovers, its floating defines a space. The shape seems so obviously sci-fi, but fresh. The function could follow the form. The shape is beautiful and functional-which hits both of the pillars of American Needs right on the head. — Tucker Viemeister

It's a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he's dead. — Bob Hope