Unrighted Quotes & Sayings

Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist. People of color are filled with sorrow and rage at unrighted wrongs. Drowning in silence, we are brothers and sisters drowning each other. Once we decide to transform ourselves from fearful caterpillars into courageous butterflies, we will be able to bridge the racial gulf and move forward together towards a bright and colorful future. — Eva Paterson

He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself. — Marguerite Yourcenar

The lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience. — Aldous Huxley

Emily's got a chicken obsession. — Julie Cross

If we're going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It's the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words. — Rita Dove

Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how
many of my old acquaintance are dead! — William Shakespeare

A brick could be used to wash your hands. And after that, I'd suggest you wash out your filthy mouth. Scrub it clean, you scatological talker you. — Jarod Kintz

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there. — Ralph Vaughan Williams

He really needed to stop being so hot while his hands were on me. — Veronica Blade