Marklen Mosijenko Quotes & Sayings

I disconnected myself to shield myself from people who would sway to my songs in the club and call me 'nigger' in the street. They were too busy seeing their own preconceived image of a Negro woman. the image that I chose to give them was of a woman who they could not reach and therefore can't hurt. — Lena Horne

Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the punches when we hit a rough passage. But we're less prepared for our Second Adulthood as we approach life after retirement, where there are no fixed entrances or exits, and lots of sand into which it is easy to bury our heads. — Gail Sheehy

we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination. — Patricia Crone

Yakety Yak. The Coasters. 1958 Spark Records. One minute and fifty seconds of sublime, in-your-face, balls-out nonsense. Everything rock and roll was meant to be. — Tristan Egolf

Is a faith without action a sincere faith? — Jean Racine

In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times. — Donna Shalala

When I watch a movie myself, I want to forget that I'm watching a movie, and I want to be inside the movie. That's the kind of experience I want my audience to have. — Susanne Bier

You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models. — Charlie Munger

Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. — Karl Marx

Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then — James Russell Lowell

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock. — Twyla Tharp

Connection is life; disconnection, death. — Deborah Day