Lourde Quotes & Sayings

It's healthy to have older friends. You go, 'Look, I'm younger than them!' That's always the nice thing, if you can be the youngest one in the room at times. Like if you're always the oldest one in the room, you'll start to feel like the oldest person in the world. So get older friends, because they're cool. Get cool older friends. — Paul Feig

The gate that leads to life is narrow and small so that few find it. — Rae Carson

Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better. — Tom McCall

Death hastens those who hasten death. — Joan Slonczewski

Welcome to America, where racism will never end, white don't respect black, where black skin people are treated like criminals. — Werley Nortreus

- 'twould almost damn those ears; The author's meaning is this: - That some people are thought wise whilst they keep silence; who, when they open their mouths, are such stupid praters, that the hearers cannot help calling them fools, and so incur the judgment denounced in the Gospel. - THEOBALD. — William Shakespeare

Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, My generation failed, but this new one is going to change the entire world, and go piously to the polls even on rainy election-days, and never drink more than one cocktail, and end all war. — Sinclair Lewis

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life. — Joel Madden

Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met. — Sara Zarr

You said you wanted to remember something.' His palms slid up to the top of her thighs and squeezed. 'So lie back and let me do my thing.'
-Issac Rothe, Crave — J.R. Ward

Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world — Roger Scruton

The best gift that we can give to our enemy is not war, but forgiveness and peace. — Debasish Mridha

You are the love you seek. You are the companionship you desire. You are your own completion, your own wholeness. You are your best friend, your confidant. 'You are,' as poetess Audre Lourde wrote, 'the one that you are looking for.' You are the only one who can do what you are looking for someone else to do. — Iyanla Vanzant

A samurai chooses to serve a master and does it out of respect and love, not because they are forced. Service to them is not demeaning; service is an expression of their prowess and their pride; they serve because only they are strong enough to serve with such flawless perfection and such consummate ability. It is a source of pride to them. — Alexei Maxim Russell

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life. — Eric Thomas

Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. — Claudia Gray