Womanism African American Quotes & Sayings

Attempting to defeat the enemy by wrestling with people could be likened to trying to destroy a tree by picking all its fruit. — Lisa Bevere

I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer. — Laura Slade Wiggins

Today, the lay midwife is a response to a growing home-birth movement. In my own community most physicians have decided to withhold prenatal care from the home-birther. This is judgmental and vindictive. These doctors have decided that home birth is not safe, and by withholding prenatal care they are doing their best to make sure it is unsafe. Often it is lay midwives who step forward to fill the void and help eliminate the unnecessary dangers of home birth. They are essential for screening out women who really should not have a home birth. For considerably less money than a physician charges, they spend many more hours with a pregnant woman before, during, and after the birth. and in most places they courageously face the opposition of the established medical community. — Susan McCutcheon

The more I find out, the more I realize that I don't know what's going on."
"How fortunate that you have discovered the way of wisdom," Leto said. — Frank Herbert

It was useless to whine and moan about what you could've had- what you deserved, what was fair. I was just happy to have this moment. — Rick Riordan

Be humble, believe in yourself, and have the love of the world in your heart. — Michael Jackson

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. — Betty White

You have to link what you want to say to what others' needs are. — John C. Maxwell

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad. — Erich Maria Remarque

An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.' — Theodore Bikel

PIERROT: Of course not. There never was. "Moon's" just a word to swear by. "Mutton!" - now there's a thing you can lay the hands on, And set the tooth in! Listen, Columbine: I always lied about the moon and you. Food is my only lust. COLUMBINE: Well, eat it, then, For Heaven's sake, and stop your silly noise! I haven't heard the clock tick for an hour. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Holding onto Midge's shirt so he isn't carried off in the wind, we — Jon Bounds

Practice the precept: find without seeking — Robert Bresson