Uroki Quotes & Sayings

To embrace the ideas of Malcolm X is to embrace the ideas of African Internationalism and the ideas of African Internationalism are opposite and contradictory to the ideals of Americanism. The ideals of African Internationalism promote freedom from oppression and injustice. These ideals promote freedom and independence. — Omali Yeshitela

I wanted to tell her to never change, to never let her heart get trampled down and hard. But she'd remember that, too. And right now she didn't know that there was any other way to be. That her heart, her soul, could ever be anything other than soft and lovely and fertile. And she needed to stay that way as long as she could. — R.J. Keller

In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat. — Horace Mann

If they are wise, do not quarrel with them; if they are fools, ignore them. — Epictetus

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater. — Nicholas Evans

We want recognition, not accomplishment. — Gavin De Becker

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh. — Nick Cave