Incomodando Quotes & Sayings

Even as children they had been good in fact, but also in order to be seen as good. There was something disturbingly like hypocrisy about it all ... — Marilynne Robinson

I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?' — Quiara Alegria Hudes

Behind every humorist who delights in knifing hypocrites is a major self-critic. — Wendy Aron

The best I can say was that it was a very horsely horse. It was, indeed, the horseliest of all horses — K.M. Grant

My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind. — Najib Razak

Write if you will: but write about the world as it is and as you think it ought to be and must be - if there is to be a world. Write about all the things that men have written about since the beginning of writing and talking - but write to a point. Work hard at it, care about it. Write about our people: tell their story. You have something glorious to draw on begging for attention. Don't pass it up. You have something glorious to draw on begging for attention. Don't pass it up. Use it. Good luck to you. The Nation needs your gifts.
Lorraine Hansberry speech, "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black," given to Readers Digest/United Negro College Fund creative writing contest winners, NYC, May 1, 1964. — Lorraine Hansberry