Immolating Black Quotes & Sayings

If anyone wants to start an epidemic, then-whether it is of shoes or behavior or a piece of software-he or she has to somehow employ Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen in this very way: he or she has to find some person or some means to translate the message of the Innovators into something the rest of us can understand. — Malcolm Gladwell

I couldn't go to school with whites. Now there are schools that educate everyone. — Joe Frazier

I try to maintain a high level of coolness. Which means I've gotta look at lot of magazines. I've gotta look at a lot of ads to see what people want to wear. — Fred Armisen

We make choices every day about what will inspire us and what we will allow to get us down. — Lisa A. Mininni

In my late teens, early 20s, when I started stand-up and I was living downtown for the first time, I was deep into my blues and Bukowski phase. And, you know, that's when that's appropriate. And I grew out of it. — Paul F. Tompkins

We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone. — Ursula Goodenough

People come in my house and say, "I like this." I say, "Do you want it?" Isn't that the Christian thing to do? — Stanley Victor Paskavich

In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang. — Ike Turner

More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making. — Jim Dine

I understood why parents would want to do that, but it wasn't the message I was going for. If anyone should change their behaviour, I thought, it ought to be those doing the shaming. Justine's crime had been a badly worded joke mocking privilege. To see the catastrophe as her fault felt to me a little like 'Don't wear short skirts'. It felt like victim-blaming. — Jon Ronson

Demagnetizing is a fact of life. — Rick Moody

And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover. — Virginia Woolf

You better get it while you can — Steve Goodman

Progress in evil was quick and easy; Apollyon was not a chap who hid himself and he gave every assistance in his power. The growth in goodness was so slow, at times so flat, so dull, and like the White Queen one had to run so fast to stay where one was, let alone progress; and there were few men who dared to say they had found God. It was easy to be a clever sinner, for the race to an earthly visible goal was short to run, so impossibly hard to be a wise saint, with the goal set at so vast a distance from this world and clouded with such uncertainty. — Elizabeth Goudge