Good Black Lives Matter Quotes & Sayings

The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy. — Lin Yutang

A lot of coaches play percentages when it comes to me, but that's just a way of saying that you can't stop me. — Shaquille O'Neal

Misery is not measured in the material goods but in the psychic strength of an individual. — Daniel Marques

Own your own story and then disown it. See how that feels. — Art Hochberg

Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian. — Wayne Newton

I been in sorrow's kitchen and done licked out all the pots. Nobody knows the trouble I seen. Steal away to Jesus. I ain't got long to stay here. — Elizabeth Alexander

I've hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very useful when you don't want to look at people. I used to have very short hair, but long hair is my thing - a black nocturnal shield. — Bat For Lashes

For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power. — Alma Guillermoprieto

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people. — Paula Patton

When you have nothing to offer said party, said party will take you for every penny and sell you a lemon if you stand there and try to close the deal. My advice is that it is not worth the hassle it usually costs you. This is what we call a walk-away deal...because you have to be willing to walk away from it. — Lacey Schmidt

In all that enormous excitement of fighting spirit, only Oskan noticed that the terrible warlike figure of Redrought Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield, Bear of the North, Drinker of Blood was still wearing his fluffy slippers and that Primplepuss the kitten was peeping out of his shirt collar to see what all the noise was about. — Stuart Hill

Black Lives Matter, the movement founded by the activists Alicia Garza, Patrisse Callie's, and Opal Tometi, began with the premise that the incommensurable experience of systemic racism creates an unequal playing field. The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings. Consequently, our laws and attitudes have been straining against the devaluation of the black body. Despite good intentions, the associations of blackness with inarticulate, bestial criminality persist beneath the appearance of white civility. This assumption both frames and determines our individual interactions and experiences as citizens. — Jesmyn Ward

The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no emptiness of sensation — John Ashbery

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars. — Robert Charles Wilson