Minette De Silva Quotes & Sayings

We're all black, and we all love to be black, and we all sing from our own hymn sheet. We're all surely black people, but we may be finally approaching a point of human history where you can't talk up or down to us anymore, but only to us. He's talking down to white people - how curious it sounds the other way round! In order to say such a thing, one would have to think collectively of white people, as a people of one mind who speak with one voice - a thought experiment in which we have no practice. But it's worth trying. It's only when you play the record backward that you hear the secret message. 3 — Zadie Smith

I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job. — Lisa Murkowski

There are very few things in the body that nitric oxide doesn't regulate. — Ferid Murad

An ally in time of need is worth more than gold.
(Lady Rose quoting Scholar Tan) — Michael Pryor

Loving-kindness - maitri - toward ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. Maitri means that we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry after all these years. We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness. The point is not to try to change ourselves. Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That's the ground, that's what we study, that's what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest. Sometimes — Pema Chodron

Death is just one more Path. One you'll come to in time. — Jim Butcher

I find it completely irrational to say someone who stands up for life for children is taking the life of adult. It's completely inconsistent with the values of the pro-life movement that are very passionate about protecting life, not taking life. — James Lankford

Gently guide the tender vine else it become wild, tangled and impossible. — Kathryn Hall

Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures and, for example, say no to this way of representing a woman's body? It's also a camera-and-object problem, of who is really guiding the camera. — Pipilotti Rist

Fine. Fine. Let's try. You asked why bad things happen to good people. Well, the simple answer is, there are no bad things and there are no good people. Nothing bad ever happens to anyone and people are neither good nor bad. A person is nothing. A person does not exist. There are no people. — Dorothy Gravelle

The suburbs are the American dream, right? Living in a nice house, having a good job, a happy family. — Cheryl Hines

America ... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. — Hunter S. Thompson

Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. — Flannery O'Connor

The overwhelming trend of our age is to take products that were once delivered as physical goods, find ways to turn them into data, and stream them into your home. — Chris Anderson