Sinethemba Nguqu Quotes & Sayings

When I was fifteen, an extraordinary and terrible thing happened, and there was only Before and After. — Ransom Riggs

Genius attracts more hate than love and more disrespect than respect; at least for the first few hundred years. — Steve Fowler

Black girls are likened more to adults than to children and are treated as if they are willfully engaging in behaviors typically expected of Black women - sexual involvement, parenting or primary caregiving, workforce participation, and other adult behaviors and responsibilities. This compression is both a reflection of deeply entrenched biases that have stripped Black girls of their childhood freedoms and a function of an opportunity-starved social landscape that makes Black girlhood interchangeable with Black womanhood. It gives credence to a widely held perception and a message that there is little difference between the two. — Monique Morris

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything. — Edward Hirsch

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking. — Victor Hugo

Count the steps
and keep the number.
Pick the white pebbles
and the funny strange leaves.
Mark the curves
and cliffs around
for you may need
to come home again. — Tenzin Tsundue

When I first came to L.A., I worked at the Magic Castle, and it was so much fun. But the best part of magic for me these days is not having to do it for a living. It's being able to pull a trick out when people least expect it, when they don't know that you do magic. — Steve Valentine

History has been written, but it has not always been right or complete. — Toi Thomas

Maybe everything we've ever done has been for love. — Byron Katie

I was a very confident little kid. — Tina Fey

Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts. — Mitt Romney

The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World. — Paul Krugman