Ronald Bartel Backdraft Quotes & Sayings

Knowing that "me" is inextricably linked to blackness, [I try to enjoy] the process of expanding beyond the expected boundaries set by existing culture, norms and media. — Baratunde Thurston

What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this. — Graham Nelson

I am charting a course that will become a seed which may fall to the ground and die. But out of it shall arise many seeds and trees that shall become a plantation of light, which would usher in a new dawn of Gods righteousness to the church, Nigeria, and to Africa. — Sunday Adelaja

I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out. — Robert Genn

There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience. — Roger Chamberlain

Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars
That make ambition virtue. — William Shakespeare

I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses. — Italo Calvino

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was not intact there, so I wound up going into business. But I love to write, still. I'm not a great writer, but I enjoy it. — Anne M. Mulcahy

Everything hinges on how you look at things — Henry Miller