Mansa Quotes & Sayings

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me. — Arielle Dombasle

The law is about you looking at yourself. The new covenant is all about you seeing Jesus. — Joseph Prince

When belonging to an elite group eclipses the love of God, when I draw life and meaning from any source other than my belovedness, I am spiritually dead. When God gets relegated to second place behind any bauble or trinket, I have swapped the pearl of great price for painted fragments of glass. — Brennan Manning

You're writing a book about Mansa Musa? I didn't know anyone in America knew who he was. He was our Lincoln! — P. James Oliver

I see my work as a series of attempts to ruin certain representations and to welcome a female spectator into the audience of men. If this work is considered incorrect, all the better, for my attempts aim to undermine that singular pontificating male voice-over which correctly instructs our pleasures and histories or lack of them. — Barbara Kruger

Why didn't you tell me there was a smoking hot carbon copy of you? — Kimberly Lauren

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden. — Maria Montessori

I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies. — Ice Cube

Ours. By then I'd read Chancellor Williams, J. A. Rogers, and John Jackson - writers central to the canon of our new noble history. From them I knew that Mansa Musa of Mali was black, and Shabaka of Egypt was black, and Yaa Asantewaa of Ashanti was black - and "the black race" was a thing I supposed existed from time immemorial, a thing that was real and mattered. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Everything becomes closer once you realize that the world is only as far away as a nap and a meal. — Feist

Was her thong chafing her ass or did she really dislike me that much. — Autumn Doughton

The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself. — Twyla Tharp

I'm not alone," said the boy. "I've got a puppy. — Jane Thayer

For a witch stands on the very edge of everything, between the light and the dark, between life and death, making choices, making decisions so that others may pretend no decisions have even been needed. Sometimes they need to help some poor soul through the final hours, help them to find the door, not to get lost in the dark. — Terry Pratchett

No one is ever the villain of their own story. — Cassandra Clare

We are all creators. Whether or not we create is not up to us. We are human, and creating is what we do. Every interaction, movement, and decision is creativity at work. We are all artists. We all order creation around us into the world that we want to make. — Michael Gungor

We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption. — Francis Parkman