Killens Quotes & Sayings

We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world aboutthe American Black man. — John Oliver Killens

Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve. — John Oliver Killens

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination. — John Oliver Killens

In a way, I am a psychological transsexual, always trying to "pass" for a normal person but being clocked every time. — Augusten Burroughs

I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, 'Real Housewives.' — Grace Helbig

I'm so glad I was born with estrogen and not testosterone. It makes decision-making and rational thought so much easier. I — Katie Graykowski

Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life. Really let go and explore your feelings and thoughts about it. In your writing, you might tie this experience to your childhood, your relationship with your parents, people you have loved or love now or even your career. How is this experience related to who you would like to become, who you have been in the past, or who you are now?. — James W. Pennebaker

Along with the fight to desegregate schools, we must desegregate the entire cultural statement of America, we must desegregate the minds of the American people or we will find that we have won the battle and lost the war. — John Oliver Killens

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race. — John Oliver Killens

Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life. — John Oliver Killens

The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget, and worry becomes an impossibility. — Oswald Chambers

Integration begins the day after the minds of the people are desegregated. — John Oliver Killens

We are not fighting for the right to be like you. We respect ourselves too much for that. When we advocate freedom, we mean freedom for us to be black, or brown, and you to be white, and yet live together in a free and equal society. This is the only way that integration can bring dignity for both of us. — John Oliver Killens

When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered. — John Oliver Killens

A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity. — Honore De Balzac

He sold his watch to buy her combs, and she sold her hair to buy a watch chain. — Anna Quindlen

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God. — Martin Luther

the houses much smaller and meek and timid and nondescript, and even the trees were scantily clad. — John Oliver Killens

The Negro was invented in America. — John Oliver Killens

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less. — Maya Angelou

What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard! — John Oliver Killens

I am too nervous to eat pie. — Raymond Carver

If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy. — Mary Doria Russell