Tangkal Bidara Quotes & Sayings

'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and in fact, it happens to have more characters who are not Ethiopian than who are. — Dinaw Mengestu

I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little bit iffy because they were performing, a lot of times, for white audiences who found it hilarious. — Cecile McLorin Salvant

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright. — E.B. White

The basis of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. In other words, religion is the self-consciousness and self-feeling of man who has either not yet found himself or has already lost himself again. — Christopher Hitchens

It was as if Tutankhamen or Miss Havisham had wandered into the pub one night and started bitching about the head on the pints. — Tana French

His heart is a suspended lute; As soon as you touch it, it resonates. — Edgar Allan Poe

All good things spring from Self-Love — N. Sophronia Crosby

Overcome With Your Failure Is Your Real Success. — Deepak Gupta

Fun fact: there are also 3,000 varieties of pears. That's right. Even PEARS are more complicated than you thought! — Scott Westerfeld

Amy planted a glass of brandy beside the bride's cornflakes. — Jane Gardam

Religious damage is worse than alcohol damage or drug damage — Sunday Adelaja

New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not only just the landscapes themselves but their relationships to what we would call 'a center' or 'the center of the universe,' has in some ways defined my artistic and critical vision. — Junot Diaz

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle — G.K. Chesterton