Saidah Blount Quotes & Sayings

Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us. — Richard L. Evans

If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine. — Unknown

I was a pretty confident kid, even if it was all false bravado. — Simon Baker

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control. — Noam Chomsky

I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which had not circumscribed and handicapped me on account of my race, that had allowed me to reach any height I was able to attain. — Mary Church Terrell

I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on ground glass, the finished print previsioned completely in every detail of texture, movement, proportion, before exposure - the shutter's release automatically and finally fixes my conception, allowing no after manipulation - the ultimate end, the print, is but a duplication of all that I saw and felt through my camera. — Edward Weston

Not getting a straight answer is a straight answer. — Sarvesh Jain

One moment it was a calculating machine, attempting dispassionately to keep up with the gouts of data. And then awash in those gouts, something metal twitched and a patter of valves sounded that had not been instructed by those numbers. A loop of data was self-generated by the analytical engine. The processor reflected on its creation in a hiss of high-pressure steam. One moment it was a calculating machine. The next, it thought. — China Mieville

I will tease you, bite you, and spank you. — Lisa Renee Jones

It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only in obedience and servility toward themselves, but also in adoration. — Etienne De La Boetie

I knew it the moment I saw the scar, saw the flatness behind her eyes, like a pool that has lost all its depth.
Either she doesn't detect the challenge or she chooses to ignore it. — Lauren Oliver

This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different. — Jim Capaldi

Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't. — Jon Scieszka

If many regard Islam as a religion of the sword, Muslims down through the ages have spoken of the West's Crusader mentality and ambitions. Therefore for Muslim-Christian relations, it is less a case of what actually happened in the Crusades than how they are remembered. — Sven Lange

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural. — Thomas Jefferson