India Arie Video Quotes & Sayings

Data is the pollution problem of the information age, and protecting privacy is the environmental challenge. — Bruce Schneier

Do you know that some women actually refuse to be treated for fear of losing their hair? In the words of my friend India Arie: "Hey, I am not my hair. I am not this skin. I am a soul that lives within." I wanted to make a statement that I wasn't ashamed to have cancer or be bald. I was absolutely stunned by the reaction to my video diary. The outpouring of support was overwhelming. — Robin Roberts

I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black women. In other words, Black feminist thought encompasses theoretical interpretations of Black women's reality by those who live it. — Patricia Hill Collins

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species. — Seneca The Younger

Gratitude invites a sense of sufficiency. — Wayne Muller

Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives. — Alain De Botton

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage. — Anna Brownell Jameson

Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant. — Paulo Coelho

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last? — Frank Lloyd Wright

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly ... or like somebody's mother. — Norman Rockwell

Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else. — Michael Stuhlbarg

I'm not the average girl from your video and I ain't built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because I am a queen — India.Arie