Jacqueline Woodson Brown Girl Dreaming Quotes & Sayings

Nobody planned the global capitalist system, nobody runs it, and nobody really comprehends it. This particularly offends intellectuals, for capitalism renders them redundant. It gets on perfectly well without them. — Peter Saunders

The real purpose of meditation is this: to teach a man how to work himself free of created things and temporal concerns, in which he finds only confusion and sorrow, and enter into a conscious and loving contact with God in which he is disposed to receive from God the help he knows he needs so badly, and to pay to God the praise and honor and thanksgiving and love which it has now become his joy to give. — Thomas Merton

The fool will teach ere he has learned, and his very servants scorn him. — Roan Clay

The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished. — Johann Gottfried Herder

I myself do not believe that the Torah is any more or less the revealed Word of God than are Dante's Commedia, Shakespeare's King Lear, or Tolstoy's novels, all works of comparable literary sublimity — Harold Bloom

Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened. — Madeleine M. Kunin

I still have a desire to do some sketch comedy. My dream is to be on 'SNL,' to host 'SNL.' — Selenis Leyva

It's convenient how men get to sign their names to these little creations without doing much more than having an orgasm and assembling a crib. — Tarryn Fisher

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night. — Eleanor Roosevelt

As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age. — Peter Mullan