Tytiana Johnson Quotes & Sayings

I have raised you to respect every human being as singular. And you must extend that same respect into the past. Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman whose mind is as active as your own, whose range of feelings as vast as your own, who prefers the way the light falls in one particular spot in the woods, who enjoys fishing where the water eddys in the nearby stream, who loves her mother in her own complicated way, thinks her sister talks to loud, has a favorite cousin, a favorite season, who excels at dress making, and knows inside herself that she is as intelligent and capable as anyone.
Slavery is the same woman born in a world that loudly proclaims its love of freedom and describes this world in essential texts. A world in which these same professors hold this woman a slave. Hold her mother a slave, her father a slave, her daughter a slave. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? — Patrick Henry

You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter. — Robin Williams

I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make. — Lou Holtz

Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them. — Trisha Goddard

Excess body fat alters the levels of the hormones insulin, leptin, and estrogen, and these factors are believed to be responsible for the acceleration of pubertal timing by obesity. — Joel Fuhrman

That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage. — Maureen Forrester

The crushed
teapot
in
the rubbish
of the
bulldozed
house
will sing
in your
ears
forever. — Alice Walker

I'm kind of obsessed with food - I really am. — KaDee Strickland

Gray had not gotten better. — Sara Pennypacker

At least to pray is left - is left Oh Jesus - in the Air - I know not which thy chamber is - I'm knocking everywhere. — Emily Dickinson