Malidoma Dagara Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes the guys who look the most normal are the biggest pervs of all. — Teddy Wayne

I'm much more interested in shows that maybe not everybody loves, but a lot of people REALLY love. That's how I am as a person. I'm as extreme as the roles in the shows that I like to be on. — Felicia Day

God is able to place stars in their sockets & suspend sky like a curtain; surely He is mighty enough to light your path. — Max Lucado

He saw the article ... which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public - an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary. — Ayn Rand

When you go into a fast food restaurant, you may just think about how good your meal tastes while you're eating it. But you're not thinking about all the consequences that come from that one purchase - the consequences for your body, the consequences for supporting this company and how it's treating it workers, all the way back to the farm where the potatoes were grown, or the ranch where the cattle were raised. — Eric Schlosser

For thy love, I feel ineffable joy. — Debasish Mridha

You're my safe spot. You have my heart. There's nothing else. — Mary Elizabeth

You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel. — Nancy Kress

Wealth (among the Dagara) is determined not by how many things you have, but by how many people you have around you. — Malidoma Patrice Some

I dream that I have found us both again,
With spring so many strangers' lives away,
And we, so free,
Out walking by the sea,
With someone else's paper words to say ...
They took us at the gates of green return,
Too lost by then to stop, and ask them why-
Do children meet again?
Does any trace remain,
Along the superhighways of July? — Thomas Pynchon

Among the Dagara, darkness is sacred. It is forbidden to illuminate it, for light scares the Spirit away ... . The one exception to this rule is the bonfire. — Malidoma Patrice Some

Since I only got one life to ive, God forgive me for my sins, let me make it and i'll never steal again, or deal again, my only friend is my misery. Wantin revenge for the agony they did to me. — Tupac Shakur

I hate when a man feels I'm obligated to disclose my marital status to somebody I don't even know. Even this bullshit about status itself as if married and spinster are the only two choices for defining myself. Or because I'm a woman I'm supposed to have a status at all. — Marlon James