Middle Passage Novel Quotes & Sayings

If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment. — Chris Abani

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator. — William Cowper

When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it. — Wendy Mass

He is slow, and the sea sings to us both, but he returns to me. — Maggie Stiefvater

Bet on technical insights that help solve a big problem in a novel way, optimize for scale, not for revenue, and let great products grow the market for everyone. — Eric Schmidt

It is much easier to maintain and bolster views that we currently hold than it is to create and develop new ones. Referred to as the confirmation bias, we seek out — Brainy Book Reviews

A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being. — Francis Chan

I went to the Independent Spirit Awards and won. — Lupita Nyong'o

I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed. — Ansel Elgort

As far as the sounds on the space station, it's pumps, fans, motors, certain modules are louder than others, but it's generally a pretty nice working environment. It's not too loud or too smelly. — Scott Kelly

In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class. — Beth Henley

If you're worried about messaging, people will just move to something else. You know if you legislate against Facebook and Apple and Google and whatever else in the US, they'll just use something else. So are we really safer then? I would say no. I would say we're less safe, because now we've opened up all of the infrastructure for people to go wacko at. — Tim Cook

For the first time in world history the peasant was destined to find a leader in the person of the worker. In that lies the fundamental, and you may say the whole, difference between the Russian Revolution and all those preceding it. In — Leon Trotsky