Jammin Quotes & Sayings

Nigger, you sure ought to be glad it was us you talked to that way. You're a lucky bastard, 'cause if you'd said that to some other white man, you might've been a dead nigger now." I was learning rapidly how to watch white people, to observe their every move, every fleeting expression, how to interpret what was said and what left unsaid. Late one Saturday night I made some deliveries in a white neighborhood. I was pedaling my bicycle back to the store as fast as I could when a police car, swerving toward me, jammed me into the curbing. "Get down, nigger, and put up your hands!" they ordered. I did. They climbed out of the car, guns drawn, faces set, and advanced slowly. "Keep still!" they ordered. I reached my hands higher. They searched my pockets and packages. They seemed dissatisfied when they could find nothing incriminating. Finally, one of them said: "Boy, tell your boss not to send you out in white neighborhoods at this time of — Richard Wright

I just wanted to live. I never wanted to hurt anyone. Please understand. — Genevieve

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business. — Selma Blair

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black. — Gwendolyn Brooks

You have to act like a responsible professional in the industry regardless of your age. — Josh Schwartz

[Love] has as few problems as a motocar. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road. — Franz Kafka

The print is devised so that I can cut the dresses on the bias, so they work around the body. It's not like a regular print that you buy and ends up being a vertical and a horizontal placement. It works around the body. — John Galliano

What can God do for a liar who refuses to repent? Can the Lord save him? He can't claim salvation. Baptizing him in water will not settle the trouble, unless you keep him under. — J. Golden Kimball

We never will have any prosperity that is free from speculation till we pass a law that every time a broker or person sells something, he has got to have it sitting there in a bucket, or a bag, or a jug, or a cage, or a rat trap, or something, depending on what it is he is selling. We are continually buying something that we never get from a man that never had it. — Will Rogers

Heaven is a place where you can get all you want of whatever you like. Heaven is not the end: it's only the beginning. — David Berg

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work. — George Hickenlooper

The art of writing was independently born in these four regions and I do not think it a coincidence that the advent of the written word was nourished by river water. — Olivia Laing

Scars are the medals of success, not the glitters or the gold. — Debasish Mridha

We have had some great shows this summer, the Jammin Against the Darkness event was pretty incredible and it was good to see everyone at the festivals. Today we head to South Dakota for the start of the tour with Falling Up, The Wedding and Mainstay. — John Reuben Zappin