Ekitis Quotes & Sayings

He is dark as history, origin of the word native: the weight of blood — Natasha Trethewey

While some more passive forms of leisure, such as watching TV or surfing the Internet, are fun in the short term, over time, they don't offer nearly the same happiness as more challenging activities. — Gretchen Rubin

Don't go yet. Please. Tell me a story, one about us. Tell what it meant. How on earth did it happen? The story, Pat - tell it to me. — Pat Conroy

The fratricidal Yoruba wars of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were a great boost to the transatlantic traffic in human beings. There were constant skirmishes between the Ijebus, the Egbas, the Ekitis, the Oyos, the Ibadans, and many other Yoruba groups. Some of the smaller groups might even have been wiped out from history, as the larger ones enlarged their territory and consolidated their power. The vanquished were brought from the interior to the coast and sold to the people of Lagos and to communities along the network of lagoons stretching westward to Ouidah. And they in turn arranged the auctions at which the English, the Portuguese, and the Spanish loaded up their barracoons and slave ships. Some of these intertribal wars were waged for the express purpose of supplying slaves to traders. At thirty-five British pounds for each healthy adult male, it was a lucrative business. — Teju Cole

Much like a GPS, love re-calibrates itself if you've made a wrong turn. — Marianne Williamson

Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty. — Anne Carson

Meditation is bringing the mind home. — Sogyal Rinpoche

And when again it's morning, they' ll wash away. Here it's safe, here it's warm Here the daisies guard you from every harm — Suzanne Collins

I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label. — Amber Heard

Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility. — Leonard Ravenhill

the first time in my life my status has little meaning. For the first time in my life my money has little meaning. For the first time in my life I realize life is meaningless without the person you want to — J.A. Huss

Prayer is powerful! It fills the earth with mercy, it makes the Divine clemency pass from generation to generation; right along the course of the centuries wonderful works have been achieved through prayer. — Frances Xavier Cabrini