Juvelina Ponce Quotes & Sayings

A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job. — Jamaica Kincaid

The white race is absolutely disagreeable to get along with in peace. No other people on the face of the earth have been able to get along with white people since white people have been on our planet. — Khalid Abdul Muhammad

The Government's business is in sound condition. — Andrew Mellon

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius. — Henry Wilson Allen

Independence. Freedom. Liberty. These have become bywords of our time. And yet we hardly understand the terms at all anymore ... The assumption is now nearly automatic that freedom is without substance. It is an extrinsic condition, and a negative at that. It means that there are no strings upon the autonomous self. It is ... freedom as license, as a permission slip to do as you please. It is freedom that worships the abstraction of choice: choice is the only thing that matters; whether it is one choice or another matters not at all. — Anthony Esolen

The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground. — Valentina Tereshkova

If you dare to injure her in the least, I will await you where no policeman can step in between. And God shall judge between us two. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Love, I'm pretty sure, is light. — Jan Zwicky

I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The seris thought of human love as clouds coming together, sometimes brushing one to another, sometimes building to a storm, sometimes lost one in the other - casting one shadow. — Mark Lawrence

We must become lighter beings. — Tom Lubbock