Kweli Calderon Quotes & Sayings

What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety. — Alex Ebert

Money can take you many places, but imagination can take you anywhere. — Donald L. Hicks

There's something almost magical dancing around us, like I'm inside a cloud nebula and we're creating our own star. I think he feels it too. Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but I see twinkling in his eyes, like he's looking at something special, like the vast, sparkling sky that hosts planets and stars.
But he's just looking at me. — N.K. Smith

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. — Bo Bennett

They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes. — Thomas Jefferson

There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere. — Robert Zoellick

Mom wanted me to fight.
To live.
I'd just never dreamed that I'd have to do it alone. — Debra Driza

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — John Updike

Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it's true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace. — James Baldwin