Martin R Delany Quotes & Sayings

Only in fables survives what cannot survive in nature. Only myths and fables do not know the limits of possibility.' Three — Andrzej Sapkowski

Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so. — Martin Delany

I made the money; I did not let the money make me — Hisham Fawzi

If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night. — Mick Jagger

The night is Ours. Rejoicing in the ethereal realms where We are kings. Blessed souls of forgotten immortality. They fear Us in every grasp. — Luis Marques

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr. — Martin Delany

He lived in a mansion, but in a shrunken world. — Khaled Hosseini

Every people should be originators of their own destiny. — Martin Delany

I am not in favor of caste, nor separation of the brotherhood of mankind, and would as willingly live among white men as Black, if I had equal possession and enjoyment of privileges, but I shall never be reconciled living among them subservient to their will. — Martin Delany

When I first raised the issue of the so-called Islamic State at the Munich Security Conference in February, speaking about its economy, its flexibility and pathology, people thought I was trying to scare them. But now we have experienced just that. If al-Qaida was version 2.0 of terror, then the Islamic State is version 5.0. — Ashraf Ghani

The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity. — Martin Delany

Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny
the consummation of their own desires. — Martin Delany

A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man. — Martin Delany

It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land — Martin Delany

I hate videos. I'm meticulous on everything from cover art, fonts, productions, mixing. But when it comes to videos, I just feel so defeated. — Questlove

If people would only *Look to the Cookie* - all our problems would be solved — Jerry Seinfeld

I am a fascist, not a racist. — Paolo Di Canio

We must make an issue, create an event, and establish a national position for ourselves: and never may expect to be respected as men and women, until we have undertaken some fearless, bold, and adventurous deeds of daring ... — Martin Delany

It was a little skirmish across a century. — Margery Allingham

We should not be scrimping on investments in public safety. The lack of infrastructure spending is costing us lives in America. It's costing every commuter. — Cory Booker

Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years. — Robert Toombs

The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors. — Martin Delany

Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem, today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it! — C. JoyBell C.

Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may ... — Martin Delany