Jochannan Quotes & Sayings

Dipped in chocolate, bronzed in elegance, enameled with grace, toasted with beauty. My lord, she's a black woman. — Yosef A.A. Ben-Jochannan

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. — Brendan Gill

I want to find someone who's really magnetic but who isn't going to do anything bad to me. It's hard. — Lana Del Rey

As a director, your work is finished only when it's on the screen. But I will always be an actor who occasionally directs. And no, I have no interest in directing myself. I wouldn't be able to concentrate on both jobs at once. — David Morrissey

Quillonians were a reclusive race, proud, prone to drama, and violent when cornered. A couple of them had stayed at my parents' inn, and as long as everything went their way, they were perfectly cordial, but the moment any small problem appeared, they would start putting exclamation marks at the end of all their sentences. My mother didn't like dealing with them. She was very practical. If you brought a problem to her, she'd take it apart and figure out how best to resolve it. From what I remembered, Quillonians didn't always want their problems resolved. They wanted a chance to shake their clawed fists at the sky, invoke their gods, and act as if the world was ending. — Ilona Andrews

I also think you have less separation if you are fuller. If you go to the gym and pump your arms up they are bigger because of the blood volume, the fullness. But the separation is not so defined. — Dorian Yates

Take the leap. If you love theater more than anything, take the leap. It's so rich if you give over fully to it; there are no halfers or returnsies in this business - if you don't ... There's no way to go other than full tilt with your life and job. — Michael Lomenda

Wisdom is prudent strength. — Atul Gawande

Truth is a continuous examination, and Fact... always supersedes belief. — Yosef A.A. Ben-Jochannan

I will tell you that the ego in me would love to play the lead. I would have loved to have been Buzz Lightyear, or Woody in "Toy Story," "Toy Story 2" but they hire celebrities for that, well-known people. — Bob Bergen

You could wait to do something for God, but if He waited to do something for you, you couldn't finish reading this sentence ... — Garrett McCoy

I've never been into alternative, hipster rap music. — Harmony Korine

Without you, African mother, there would have been no us--African fathers, sons and daughters. Do we need to say any more African mothers, our own true goddesses! Let us praise you to the highest, telling the world about your righteousness. Let us tell the entire universe about your sacredness African woman. — Yosef A.A. Ben-Jochannan

You cannot fix racism with more racism. — Christina Engela