Doris Payne Quotes & Sayings

Life is a mission and not a career. — Robert L. Millet

I believe that if there is a huge chunk of white/truth in you, you will be drawn mostly to truth. If there is a lot of black/ego in you, you will naturally migrate to darkness/ego. We can't change our natural compositions or our attraction to certain lighting, but we can slowly change our angle of perception. Anyone can work on balancing their inner lighting simply by adjusting their outer lenses. All you have to do is learn to use your heart before your mind to see things. There is no light greater than truth, and it shines at the heart of all creation. Be like a butterfly and celebrate it every day. It is inside you. Be aware of it so it can cultivate it to grow stronger and bigger. — Suzy Kassem

When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who's asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa. — Angela Davis

I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines. — Noah Baumbach

He had sunk from his modest elevation as pastoral king into the very slime pits of Siddim; but there was left to him a dignified calm he had never before known, and that indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not. And thus the abasement had been exaltation, and the loss gain. — Thomas Hardy

One of the things I really want is for people to feel the civic responsibility, and not just refuse to vote out of protest. — Trent Lott

The less I work, the happier I am. I discovered that, as most people discover at some point. — Robert Sean Leonard

I let out a long sigh. In — Jenny Han

You can't order the waves to be silent, madame," Baldanders told her. "They are coming, and they are bitter with salt. — Gene Wolfe

Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore. — Leila Sales

Campuses not only help create social justice movements, they need them. — Gloria Steinem

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera. — Mira Sorvino

Today she wore a navy blue suit that deftly minimized a slight tendency to heft. — Tim Farrington