Valantou Quotes & Sayings

Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks. — Thomas Sowell

The important thing isn't that your technically great, I think it's the power of your expression. — John Dyer Baizley

I think the first film you do with your instincts because you haven't learned with another director or you haven't worked on other films, so you tend to do things your own way. I think what I learned the most was to take your time, to try to be less rushed into things and have some distance with what you're doing. — Nadine Labaki

Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus?
Athena's answer : What an interesting idea ... No, just kidding, Dad. Put away the lightning bolt. — Rick Riordan

Time is living me. — Jorge Luis Borges

What was the truth about the camera? he wondered.
Does the camera show the future?
Or does it actually cause bad things to happen? — R.L. Stine

It is the way, isn't it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make wisdom. Instead it creates enough space for men to commit terrible folly, from which the survivors learn through disaster. — Joel Shepherd

You can only take care about someone else,
when you take care of yourself.
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Worldpoet 546
October 3, 2016 — Petra Hermans

But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush. — John Sebastian

That, and so many other smaller incidents in my life, made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people. I — Trevor Noah