Yaa Gyasi Homegoing Quotes & Sayings

There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case. — Mahatma Gandhi

I'll keep my head down," Mally assured him. "I'll be careful."
"If anything happens
"
"If anything happens I'll tell you immediately."
Ivan seemed pleased at that and relaxed against a tree trunk.
"Good. I don't want your mother chasing me around Lenzar with a carving knife. — M.L. LeGette

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid. — William Hazlitt

Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise. — Jane Yolen

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe. — Frank Shorter

I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory. — Eric Whitacre

Life is like a concentration camp ... you can't leave without dying. — Woody Allen

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. — Huston Smith

It's hard to transport myself forward in time, and the scarcity of opportunity back then kind of fueled my ambition. But back in my day, every family I knew had a Super 8 camera, and that's what I first picked up. We adapt to the technology we have available. But for the kids of today, they can really make something great with what is available. — Todd Haynes

We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents. — Bob Ross

June 27: Sidney Fields is the first columnist to write about Marilyn, commenting in the New York Mirror: "Marilyn is a very lovely and relatively unknown movie actress. But give her time; you will hear from her. — Carl Rollyson

It was hard enough being the Girl in the Wheelchair. I didn't need to be the Girl Who Ejected From Her Wheelchair — Sarina Bowen

If you are Black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. As long as you are South of the Canadian border, you are South. — Malcolm X

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all. — Chris Hadfield

Oh, no, it can't be teardrops
'Cause a man ain't supposed to cry. — Dee Clark