Gloria Ladson Billings Quotes & Sayings

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax. — Joanne Harris

This is not just a simple story of "money can't buy happiness." Or maybe that's just what it is. And if it is, why shouldn't it be? Because if this is something we are already supposed to know, then why don't we know it? Why do we chase and scrabble and fight for things to flaunt, why? Why do we reach for power over other people, and through the thin superiority of our possessions, believe we have it? Why do we let money make people bigger, and allow those without it to be made smaller? How did we lose the truth in the frantic, tribal drumbeat of more, more, more? — Deb Caletti

The rat is always right. — B.F. Skinner

As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice. — Linda Kaplan Thaler

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven. — Lao-Tzu

Anger is the rising up of the heart in passionate displacency against an apprehended evil, which would cross or hinder us of some desired good. — Richard Baxter