Top 31 Bebe Moore Campbell Quotes

#1. Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#2. If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

Dalia Mogahed

#3. Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#4. I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#5. You think it's a game?
Unintelligible? Ha!
Envision no spoons.

This is serious.
It is a matter of joy
versus emptiness.

Kristen Henderson

#6. People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#7. Don't let your life outside of school dictate your future.

Simone Elkeles

#8. Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#9. The important thing is not to point a finger at flaws but to attempt to correct them!

Bebe Moore Campbell

#10. Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity.

Stephen Richards

#11. African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#12. If you're asking if my breasts are natural, yes, this is how I've looked since I was 13 years old.

Sofia Vergara

#13. You live your life between your ears.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#14. To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#15. Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#16. In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.

William S. Burroughs

#17. When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#18. A child's death isn't always necessary for a mother to grieve.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#19. I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#20. Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?

William Wilberforce

#21. Even if your body isn't healthy, your soul overcomes that, it doesn't even care, it worships anyway, its joyful anyway. That's what God wants to give you in your life.

Lacey Mosley

#22. As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#23. My color is my joy and not my burden...

Bebe Moore Campbell

#24. The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#25. I did five movies in Australia, I did three films in Germany, this is the fourth film I've done here in the UK, I've done a bunch of films in Canada.

Joel Silver

#26. Beatrice," she says. "Beatrice, we have to run." She pulls my arm across her shoulders and hauls me to my feet. She is dressed like my mother and she looks like my mother, but she is holding a gun, and the determined look in her eyes is unfamiliar to me.

Veronica Roth

#27. I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write when my child napped. It wasn't a burden. I was so enthused about what I was doing at the time that I really didn't mind.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#28. His eyesight wasn't as keen as it had been, but he knew a changing mind when he saw it.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#29. What he saw seemed to be the very idea of a city, barnacled and thick with itself.

David Edison

#30. I tell you, mister, if there's anything good about being a hot-tempered bitch, it's knowing right well what buttons to push in others seeing as they're the same ones what get your own back up.

J.D. Jordan

#31. The shame is in not improving when you have the opportunity!

Bebe Moore Campbell

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