Kanafani Foundation Quotes & Sayings

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee. — David Dinkins

If only the comfortable prosperity of the Victorian age hadn't lulled us into a false conviction of individual security and made us believe that what was going on outside our homes didn't matter to us, the Great War might never have happened. — Vera Brittain

Even as I hold you
I think of you as someone gone
far, far away. Your eyes the color
of pennies in a bowl of dark honey
bringing sweet light to someone else
your black hair slipping through my fingers
is the flash of your head going
around a corner
your smile, breaking before me,
the flippant last turn
of a revolving door,
emptying you out, changed,
away from me.
Even as I hold you
I am letting go. — Alice Walker

Never dismiss anyone's value until you know him. — Susan Cooper

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life. — Etheridge Knight

As an individual doing a podcast, you don't get even remotely rich. It's not something to do for money. — Jeff Garlin

We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the very best investments that the society can possibly make. And yet we still don't have public support for things like preschools. — Alison Gopnik

I'm pretty sure my baby girl has better things to do with you than keep you on your toes. — Rochelle Paige

It's not my concern to make a commercial pop record. I want to make a record of music that I would listen to, that is lyrically rich and has songs that people can relate to - more along the Jakob Dylan route: people who create for the art of it and not necessarily the monetary rewards of it. — Crystal Bowersox

Tennis is a battle of the minds, just as much as it is a battle of playing ability. Trying to expose your opponent's weaknesses is one of the most vital and fascinating facets of tennis. — Sue Barker

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid. — Esther Williams

I'm the exact same person I was before (cancer). I'm still shallow, I still love clothes, I still want to talk fashion, I still want to gossip, so lay it on me. — Giuliana Rancic