Micheaux Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been. — Dennis Oppenheim

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully. — August Wilson

You have to coddle menfolks on account of their pride. — Michael Lee West

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit. — Wallace Shawn

He needed to wear that bell around his neck and randomly intone, "Unclean," to warn people. — Andrea Speed

When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me. — Bryan Stevenson

My grandmother once told my mother that there is a splice of quartz inside each of us, like the quartz inside a compass or clock. We feel the stone glow warm when we find what it is we are meant to do. My grandmother was a singer; voice was her quartz, a second heartbeat that reminded her always of who she was. My mother's quartz is dance and Joaquin's is the piano. The saddest souls in the world, my mother believes, are those who never discover this thing within them. There is a difference between those who wander in search of that glow and those who wander in hopes of evading it. It is frightening, after all - that first awakening when the radiance within threatens to topple you. Even more terrifying is the decision to allow the fire to continue smoldering, because the brighter you let it get, the more terrible the darkness should you ever let it out."

- Elizabeth Genovise "Irises" (O. Henry prize winner 2016) — Elizabeth Genovise

I felt memories rising to the surface like a corpse coming up from dark water. — John Morgan Wilson

It's been our experience that any time a Muslim community anywhere seeks to expand or establish a mosque or some other kind of institution, there will be some type of opposition, when you scratch the surface, often there is a tremendous level of bigotry and stereotyping in the opposition. — Ibrahim Hooper

I shall always reign through the intellect, but the life! The life! O my god! Shall that never be sweet?"12 — David Brooks

The universe always favors those who fight for what they want. — Paulo Coelho

If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day. — Paulo Coelho

More than five million seniors have already saved money on their prescription drugs, and almost 33 million have benefited from free preventive services. The president cracked down hard on Medicare and health care fraud, recovering a record-breaking $10.7 billion over the last three years, protecting our seniors. That's what change looks like. — Kathleen Sebelius

I got tired of everyone being in my way, so I had to kick them out to have my privacy. — James Toney