Koleka Putuma Quotes & Sayings

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants. — Martin Lewis Perl

I remember our sorrows in shades,
like the gray of the shadows,
which loomed that day,
and the white in his lie
when he promised to stay. — Lang Leav

You're too young to decide to live forever. — Maxine Hong Kingston

Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses. — Salvador Dali

People assume because I'm a coffee expert I drink lots of coffee. I can't. It takes me half an hour to brew my perfect cup. Do the math. I simply don't have time to drink more. — Kevin Sinnott

I am moved, shaken, and when it is all over, I look at wonder at what is written or painted. — Robert Kanigher

The more a woman appreciates the hunting prowess of her man, the more he will kill for her. — Michael DiMarco

Magick need not be a crutch, but it is hard to argue that anything you lean on in lieu of building your own strength weakens resolve. — Thomm Quackenbush

Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. — Benoit Mandelbrot

Believe me, there is no goal, nor a way to reach it. You are the way and the goal, there is nothing else to reach except yourself. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Or the people they call terrorists. If it's you who's in the foreign country, and the people you're waiting for arguably have more of a right to be there than you do, who's the terrorist? — Ayelet Waldman

If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band. — Nikki Sixx

The world looks at China as a big place with a lot of people, a good place to make money. And because so many Chinese families send their kids abroad to study, they are familiar with foreign cultures, so Hollywood films are very successful in China. — Gong Li