Ebonics Happy Birthday Quotes & Sayings

No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider. — Banana Yoshimoto

Remember, Resistance wants us to cede sovereignty to others. It wants us to stake our self-worth, our identity, our reason-for-being, on the response of others to our work. Resistance knows we can't take this. No one can. — Steven Pressfield

It is the fight for a new economy, a new energy system, a new democracy, a new relationship to the planet and to each other, for land, water, and food sovereignty, for Indigenous rights, for human rights and dignity for all people. When climate justice wins we win the world that we want. We can't sit this one out, not because we have too much to lose but because we have too much to gain. . . . We are bound together in this battle, not just for a reduction in the parts per million of CO2, but to transform our economies and rebuild a world that we want today. — Naomi Klein

Whenever an art form loses its fire, when it gets weakened by intellectual inbreeding and first principles fade into stale tradition, a radical fringe eventually appears to blow it up and rebuild from the rubble. Young Gun ultrarunners were like Lost Generation writers in the '20s, Beat poets in the '50s, and rock musicians in the '60s: they were poor and ignored and free from all expectations and inhibitions. They were body artists, playing with the palette of human endurance. — Christopher McDougall

Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle ... They conquer by strategy. — Sun Tzu

You listen to me, woman: you're mine! I'll not share you and, by God, we shall be married!" His mouth came down hard on hers and his lips crushed hers as he stamped his possession on her startled mouth. — Shirlee Busbee

I'm always interested in encountering people who are synesthetic and seeing how they experience things. — Leni Zumas

Ironically, the possibility that the president dodged his military service has increased his approval ratings with Democrats by 80 percent. — Craig Kilborn

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them. — Catherine Drinker Bowen

The world can use more light and less noise. More solvers and fewer blamers. More folks showing a better way and fewer folks complaining about how much better things used to be. More folks offering help and fewer folks wringing their hands about the problems. More hope bringers and fewer hope killers. — Steve Goodier

There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious. — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society. — Martin Parr

Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population. — Dave Matthews

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. — Isaac Asimov

Pine trees rise through cloud
soar up into the blue skies,
bush clover spangled with dewdrops
sways in the autumn breeze;
As I dip cold, pure water
at the edge of the stream,
a solitary white crane
comes lolloping my way. — Baisao