Walidah Quotes & Sayings

Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy. — Jay Griffiths

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure. — John Amos Comenius

Success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world. — Carolyn Heilbrun

at home the very walls lend you strength, — Sergei Lukyanenko

hipsters and entrepreneurs were complicated locusts. they ate up everything in sight, but they meant well. — Walidah Imarisha

But there was so much injustice. As soon as one field of hatred and oppression was burned, another crop came into harvest. It never ended and Jane grew tired. — Walidah Imarisha

Together they unlocked potential in one another. They worked hard and played harder, until the work felt like play. Everything — Walidah Imarisha

The right to life of a woman should not be contingent on her obedience of social norms and traditions.A.Prasad(Venkat Seminar ) — Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad

To get to do a West End play is once in a lifetime chance. — Rory Bremner

I hear nothing but the sound of my heart breaking into a million tiny pieces, each smaller than a single grain of sand. — Carrie Anne Noble

Some of those cartoons look nothing like me. — Sarah Sutton

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. — Virginia Woolf

the ways Black people are portrayed as the ultimate evil to justify historically and currently our exploitation, containment, and murders; the fact that for Black people and other people of color, the history of slavery, genocide, white supremacy, and colonialism is the only true horror story, and it is one we continue to live every day; and the fact that resistance of the oppressed to these structures has always been seen as the most frightful abomination that could be birthed. Through — Walidah Imarisha

He turned and looked her solemnly in the eyes. "Is it too much to ask for a happy ending?" She smiled sadly. "I don't think there are any happy endings left. — Walidah Imarisha

I don't support the belly putter. I think it's bad for the game of golf. — Padraig Harrington

Because many of the people who were taken by the wasting disease happened to be white, God was not a viable culprit. — Walidah Imarisha

While the larger white society lives in terror of liberated Blackness, of the "demons" unleashed coming after them, we know many of our spirits haunt us out of love, out of a desire for all that was unfairly stolen from them. — Walidah Imarisha

We are what we are, but it is not evil. I have lived a long time, and I've seen real evil, remember? People who hate because others do not fit within their idea of normal are evil. People who would hunt and hurt those who are different are evil. People who subjugate those they perceive to be weaker, in the name of their perversion of righteousness, they are evil. You look nothing like evil." Jackie — Walidah Imarisha

It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them. — Gina Philips

We Black people cannot outrun our demons. Nor should we ever want to. We will embrace them as our lost Beloveds, and listen to the songs they sing to bring us through the darkness. - Walidah — Walidah Imarisha

Our ancestors dreamed us up and then bent reality to create us. — Walidah Imarisha

I remember friends from wars all but we forgot.
All of them distilled into each wound we caught.
Those wounds are all painful places where we fought.
Battles never left behind, ones we never sought.
What is it that we spent and what was it we bought? — Frank Herbert