Shiploads Quotes & Sayings

They are me, these women. They are the ones who taught me to see; I taught me to see. They, we, are the ones healing the Ginen story, fighting to destroy that cancerous trade in shiploads of African bodies that ever demands to be fed more sugar, more rum, more Nubian gold. — Nalo Hopkinson

I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around. — Eileen Myles

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally. — Jake Bugg

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are. — Baltasar Gracian

Hemorrhoids. Cockroaches. Anal warts. Lonely nights. Smoking's ravages. AIDS. All the ads promised relief from these things, but where was the relief from these ads? — George Dawes Green

What myth carries is not fact, not history, but truth - the ultimate reality. The Jesus story carries this ultimate reality, and that's why, two thousand years later, it remains so compelling. — Adyashanti

It is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose ... to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Everybody gets taken at different times, Sara, but you can't let that stop you from living life. — Brenda Hodnett

He could only do rowdy because he felt what I felt: that whip-crack unleashing that comes when you meet the person who frees you — Christina Lauren