Rudimental Ritual Quotes & Sayings

I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on the other side, to experience a humanity that is neither colorless nor reducible to color. — Henry Louis Gates

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. — Ronald Reagan

I remain convinced that the most valuable use of time for a newly published author is to write a second book that's even better than the first, and a third that's better than the second, and on and on. — Suzanne Brockmann

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice. — Plutarch

Love isn't an obedient whim. It's an unruly force. And it answers to no one. — Chelsea Fine