Sucheng Quotes & Sayings

When I came back I joined a black church in Oakland and that made me feel more at home, a bit like being connected to India. It felt funny to be around so many white people when I came back to the United States. It still bothers me. One of the things I liked living in Hawaii years later was the racial complexity of it. I remember that at the time when Sucheng and I got married--we met as graduate students at Berkeley and have been married almost forty years--one of the first houses we bought was in a Black neighborhood in west Berkeley and we didn't quite notice how uniformly Black it was until some weeks later. I said to Sucheng, "You know, we're the only white people in this neighborhood." And she looked at me and said: "Speak for yourself, honkie! — Mark Juergensmeyer

Let's talk about policing and public safety. Let's debate what works and what does not. We must abandon practices that do not work, and do more of the things that actually do work to save lives. — Martin O'Malley

His Majesty [the Lord] ... rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God. — Teresa Of Avila

Teach a man a rule and you help him solve a problem; teach a man to walk with God and you help him solve the rest of his life. — John Eldredge

Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do! — Groucho Marx

Individually, we've taken the world on and won; together, we must take on the challenge of creating a new, peaceful, humane and competitive nation and prevail. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I'm just looking for touching characters. — Matthias Schoenaerts

Don't never think that you haven't got anything to learn. — Theo James

Sometimes, when the world is falling apart around you, all that's left to do is dance, right? — Colin Meloy

When people cover for the misdeeds of others, they're as guilty as those who committed the crimes. — Frank Sonnenberg

I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us. — Jim Bakker

I have three kids, one of each. — Rodney Dangerfield

I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. — Theodore Roosevelt

In the information economy, collaboration is the ultimate currency. — Amy Blankson

Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best. — Henry Mintzberg