Habra Haute Quotes & Sayings

On this walk I'd had so much time and space to actually figure out who I was without my mother's influence. I understood now: the things that my mother had found made her happy were not the same as the things that made me happy. And I understood: that was okay. — Aspen Matis

The traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but, unfortunately, the traitors among the Negro race are generally to be found among the men with the highest place in education and society, the fellows who call themselves leaders. — Marcus Garvey

Once it becomes a secret, it's hard to let it out. If you don't keep it inside to begin with, it doesn't get the chance to fester and rot. So, honesty is my policy. — C.M. Stunich

The term 'role model' is so odious, but the truth is it's a very strong writer indeed who gets by without a model kept somewhere in mind. I think of Keats. Keats slogging away, devouring books, plagiarizing, impersonating, adapting, struggling, growing, writing many poems that made him blush and then a few that made him proud, learning everything he could from whomever he could find, dead or alive, who might have something useful to teach him. — Zadie Smith

I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello. — Joshua Roman

For many years I used the pronoun 'we.' Now, as in my youth, I go to sleep and wake up alone. — Nina Berberova

Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece. — Bruce Springsteen

We left a debt in blood,' she said, baring her teeth. 'Malazan blood. And it seems they will not let that stand.'
They are here. On this shore.
The Malazans are on our shore. — Steven Erikson

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs — Anita Roddick

Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are. — Doris Humphrey