To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might be not. Either way, we're on our own.

Cassandra Clare

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalber

It took me a really long time to get here, but I'm here. Carrie, you're the one. [Mr.Big]

Sex and the City

You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.

Steve Maraboli

Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

Chuck Palahniuk

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

George Bernard Shaw

If I work as hard as I can, I wonder how much I can do in a day?

Ezra Taft Benson

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Samuel Johnson

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

Dick Gregory

Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is connected to numerous other points in the mental network.

Peter Russell

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

American Indian Proverb