Woodson African American Museum Quotes & Sayings

God's blessings don't automatically ward off the attacks of the devil as he tries to tempt us with sexual immorality — Sunday Adelaja

I have big, big stage fright. — Andrea Bocelli

Humans love sex. Both men and women are wired to be sexually responsive. Sex is the social glue of the human species. It takes heavy-handed training or trauma to kill a human's sex drive.
Religion has that power. Sexual training in guilt, shame, and fear begins virtually at birth by sexualizing nudity. The religious signal is that nudity is always sexual and the body must be covered for modesty. The Adam and Eve story is taught to young children even though they have no way to know what it means. — Darrel Ray

She bore an uncanny resemblance to my mother, but the same beauty bloomed differently in each of them. My mother's fairness was exquisite and untouchable, roaming alone in an abandoned castle. Khalto Bahiyas' beauty took you in immediately. Hers was easy and disclosed hordes of laughter stolen from wherever it could be found. Gravity, sun, and time has scrawled on their faces the travails of hard work, childbirth, and destitution. — Susan Abulhawa

They both took a couple of unsteady breaths before Daemon said, "The sooner we make our reports, the sooner we can go home." For him, home wasn't a place, it was a person - and right then, he needed to know that Jaenelle was safe. — Anne Bishop

In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died. — Brion James

The teacher knows best what these helpful connections are and must help the pupil to make them. — William Henry Pyle

If atheists believe, but can't prove that there is no god...isn't that a faith? — Duffy Prendergast

We all have our place in this diverse Spain. — King Felipe VI

Until the 1930s, the Constitution served as a major constraint on federal economic interventionism. The government's powers were understood to be just as the framers intended: few and explicitly enumerated in our founding document and its amendments. Search the Constitution as long as you like, and you will find no specific authority conveyed for the government to spend money on global-warming research, urban mass transit, food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, or countless other items in the stimulus package and, even without it, in the regular federal budget. — Robert Higgs

Keep right on to the end of the road,
Keep right on to the end.
Tho' the way be long let your heart be strong,
Keep right on round the bend. — Sir Harry Lauder

Your goal as a hitter is to get on. And if the third baseman is playing back and letting you lay down a bunt, I don't have a problem with that, even if it's late in a no-hitter. — Bert Blyleven

and let's get out of this — Antonio Garrido

I think that after the first time you give your heart away, you never get it back. The rest of your life is just you pretending that you still have a heart. — Tarryn Fisher

Try to understand the ego. Analyze it, dissect it, watch it, observe it, from as many angles as possible. And don't be in a hurry to sacrifice it, otherwise the greatest egoist is born: the person who thinks he is humble, the person who thinks that he has no ego. — Rajneesh