Baruti Kafele Quotes

#1. Forging fake smiles to hide painful truths doesn't take away the hurt, but sometimes safeguards our emotions from those adamant not to understand.

Aisha Mirza

#2. The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

Honore De Balzac

#3. Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

Storm Jameson

#4. It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.

James J. Kilpatrick

#5. You show me a school with a principal behind the desk, and I'll show you a school without principal leadership. (Quoting Baruti Kafele)

William Sterrett

#6. It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

Claire Denis

#7. Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.

Edwin Louis Cole

#8. I admit that I have sometimes claimed to be Batman in the past. But only when really, really drunk.

Warren Ellis

#9. I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

George Eliot

#10. I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.

Chloe Sevigny

#11. The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.

Lykke Li

#12. You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason?"
"I was hungry, allowances should be made.

Gail Carriger

#13. I should have gone through life half awake if you'd had the decency to leave me alone. Awake intellectually, yes, and emotionally in a way; but here--" He pointed with his pipe stem to his heart; and both smiled. "Perhaps we woke up one another. I like to think that anyway.

E. M. Forster

#14. Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

F. Lee Bailey