Famous Sizwe Shezi Quotes & Sayings

I did not see anything [New York 1886] to help my people. I could see that the Wasichus [white man] did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation's hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. This could not be better than the old ways of my people. — Black Elk

The most welcome and painful moments of the life is within marriage. — Jahangir

But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today. — Gayle Forman

Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos. — Veronica Roth

Other people imagined demons and monsters under the bed. Robert had actually seen them. — Kenneth Eade

Nobody cares for getting belittled by a person you've had sex with. A person you've licked all over. Nobody wants to sit there and get run down too far by somebody who gives them a hard-on. — Daniel Woodrell

Capital isn't hard to find; intuition, yes. — Sam Walton

There was, Alicia realized, a single hour that all the days since your birth pointed you toward. What you thought was a maze of choices, all the possibilities of what your life might become, was, in fact, a series of steps you took along a road, and when you reached your destination and looked back, only one path - the one chosen for you - was visible. — Justin Cronin

We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world. — Temple Grandin

Even as a professional in an integrated world, I had been the only black woman in enough drawing rooms and boardrooms to have an inkling of the chutzpah it took for an African American woman in a segregated southern workplace to tell her bosses she was sure her calculations would put a man on the Moon. — Margot Lee Shetterly