Spinnetossa Quotes & Sayings

A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere. — Cherrie Moraga

You'll be dethroned faster than a coke snorting beauty queen. — Eric Luper

I do feel a responsibility because most people like me that are my age or younger, they don't quite make it over to the jazz side. They flirt with it, but they don't quite marry it. — Robert Glasper

I confess I prefer to engage with pictures which I've chosen myself out of the welter of unidentified pictures, without the intrusion of too much personal context - Ilike to be a detective, and dislike being an impresario. — Luc Sante

Confession is a radical reliance on grace. A proclamation of our trust in God's goodness. "What I did was bad," we acknowledge, "but your grace is greater than my sin, so I confess it." If our understanding of grace is small, our confession will be small: reluctant, hesitant, hedged with excuses and qualifications, full of fear of punishment. But great grace creates an honest confession. — Max Lucado

My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking, — Sammy Davis Jr.

Wisdom triumphs over chance. — Juvenal

Most studies find that each murder in America leads to costs of between $10 million and $12 million, including police and prison bills and social services for families of victims and perpetrators. The University of Chicago Crime Lab calculates that gun violence costs every Chicago household about $2,500 a year. Crime — Nicholas D. Kristof

Religion has always been the fuel that keeps the furnaces of intolerance and hatred burning. — Raymond Khoury

Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.
Tuck Everlasting — Natalie Babbitt

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home. — Hannah Arendt

We are risk averse by nature - but the only way you can reach your full potential is by taking chances. Understand that you are capable of far more than you've achieved, believe that you have something of value to share with the world, and take care to step outside of your comfort zone and into your greatness. Your courage will inspire others to do the same. — Les Brown

Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap. — Mal Peet

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life. — Alec Guinness

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up. — Joan Didion