Quotes & Sayings About Racism In The Color Purple

Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it. — Charlie Jane Anders

Jacob looks like a totally normal young man. He's clearly intelligent. But having his day disrupted probably makes him feel the same way I would if I was suddenly told to bungee off the top of the Sears Tower. — Jodi Picoult

Today, this selfish attitude of indifference has taken on global proportions, to the extent that we can speak of a globalization of indifference. It is a problem which we, as Christians, need to confront. — Pope Francis

You have the power to make manifest that which is not yet visible, to create that which is still unborn. — Margot Anand

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals. — Padma Lakshmi

Today everything exists to end in a photograph. — Susan Sontag

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress. — Elon Musk

The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy. — Patti Smith

Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention. — Plato

Let them judge me as they like, I could deceive them, but myself I cannot deceive ... and strange to say, in this acknowledgement of his baseness there was something painful yet joyful and quieting. More than once in Nekhlyudov's life there had been what he called, 'a cleansing of the soul.' A state of mind in which, after a long period of sluggish inner life ... he began to clear out all the rubbish that had accumulated in his soul and caused the cessation of true life. After such an awakening, Nekhlyudov always made some rules for himself ... wrote in his diary, began afresh ... — Leo Tolstoy

Arkardy went on,with the air of a man who has got into a bog,feels that he is sinking further and further in every step, and yet hurries onwards in the hope of crossing it as soon as possible — Ivan Turgenev

Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition. — Karen Armstrong

I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes. — B. Smith

God (in His mercy) accepts false coin. — Rumi

I've found out it's fun to go shopping. It's such a feminine thing to do. — Marilyn Monroe