Uk Essay Quotes & Sayings

Double consciousness is knowing the particularity of the white world in the face of its enforced claim to universality. Double consciousness is knowing the history offered up to black people - its many interpretations and echoes of white superiority and black inferiority, of white heroism and black cowardice, and even the temporal and geographical location of history's beginning as a step off of the African continent - is a falsehood that blacks are forced to treat as truth in so many countless ways. Double consciousness, in other words, is knowing a lie while living its contradiction. — Steve Biko

I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased. — Odilon Redon

Gratitude is where self-love begins! — Bryant McGill

Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions. — Helen Wills Moody

For one thing we may be grateful: this life is not eternal. — Swami Vivekananda

There's a point when you have to stop fightin' the whole world. — Simone Elkeles

Don't do anything to stop a woman from flying; let fate take its course. — Amado Nervo

She'd started handcuffed, armed with a paper clip. Now she had a ten-inch strip of metal with sharp edges, handcuffs, and a paper clip. Her odds were improving all the time. — Rachel Caine

The shelter of excuses has a leaky roof. — Ron Kaufman