Slaveship Quotes & Sayings

We're viewed as equals - but we're still not there yet. [ ... ] The challenge for our girls, I think, is dealing with that resistance. How can we lift and defuse it, how do we make it so our equality is not so threatening? Our girls are going to have to contend with that. I contend with it right now in every realm I operate in. — Meryl Streep

east was east and west was west and never the twain shall meet, and — Christine Pope

The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability. — Jerry Falwell

Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship. — Immortal Technique

All that exists is One. People only call this One by different names. — Leo Tolstoy

We're the ones who fill in the blank spaces. Maybe we can make it different. — Lois Lowry

I wouldn't so much as stick my head in a pool hall. Oh, look, this is as far as I go explaining what I am and am not like. I will not explain myself one more time. I will not make an inventory of my attributes for people or mention my goddamn sense of duty. I will not take one more round of his ridiculous, nonsensical crap!" Whereupon, — Philip Roth

You want to go easy on the suicide stuff - first thing you know, you'll ruin your health. — Robert Benchley

At one level the story of the second fall of Zimbabwe can be read as tragic yet a courageous one: a simple but soaring binary about unfounded courage in the face of immeasurable oppression. But at another level, it is a window into a much more complex, perhaps even darker and sadder, narrative about contemporary slaveship and the terrible collision of aspiration and frustration and the need to survive that has been unleashed upon the people of Zimbabwe. Exploitation and oppression are not matters of race. — Thabo Katlholo

The thin man had a tight voice that expected to be lied to. (The King in Yellow) — Raymond Chandler

A child who thinks he can't do anything on his own eventually can't. — Lenore Skenazy

If you stretch your soul, you will find your sacred spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There were signs. Probably more of them than I ever caught, even after the fact. But I missed them all.
Maybe because I wasn't looking for them. I was too busy checking over my shoulder at the fire I'd
just come through to pay much attention to the thousand-foot cliff looming in front of me. — Gayle Forman

She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to. — Ruth Rendell

I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way. — Andy Garcia

When you want to do something that isn't the 'norm' you will be made to feel like you have a problem and if you hear it often enough then you start to believe it too. — Radhika Vaz