Joanna Bourke Quotes & Sayings

The term 'black' was given a rebirth by the black youth revolt. As reborn, it does not refer to the particular color of any particular person, but to the attitude of pride and devotion to the race whose homeland from times immemorial was called 'The Land of the Blacks.' Almost overnight our youngsters made 'black' coequal with 'white' in respectability, and challenged the anti-black Negroes to decide on which side they stood. This was no problem for many who are light or even near-white in complexion, for they themselves were among the first to proclaim with pride, 'call me black!' Those who hate the term but hold the majority of leadership positions feel compelled to use it to protect their leadership roles. — Chancellor Williams

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds. — Mark Twain

I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it. — Rodney Dangerfield

Success is measured by the journey, not by the result. — Norman Morrow

You think you'll be ok because in the end your mother will still be your mother. You don't know that she'll be changed. Loving you still, of course, but what you find out later is that her love now tastes different from all that time spent training to withstand distance, containing herself in order to live with impotence so strong, the phrase "so near and yet so far" was made for it. You think if you'd known all this you'd be able to live with the results of your choices, never again wondering what would've happened if you'd never left. — Anjanette Delgado

I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those things, by the way, I suspect will prepare a child to give up religion. If you are taught comparative religion, you are more likely to realise that there are other religions than the one you have been brought up in. And if you are if you are taught to read the bible, I can think of almost nothing more calculated to turn you off religion. — Richard Dawkins

The best way of preparing for the future is to take good care of the present, because we know that if the present is made up of the past, then the future will be made up of the present. All we need to be responsible for is the present moment. Only the present is within our reach. To care for the present is to care for the future. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I have many moods, and there is no objective reality. And I kind of live by that. — Juliana Hatfield

I love haters because they help me improve — Ross Campbell

Law and order, punishment and fair play, are all on a continuum where there are far more gray stretches than there are black and white. — Sue Grafton

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it. — Bono

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. — Abraham H. Maslow

Sir, married or unmarried, all women bleed. — Ronlyn Domingue