Black Philosophers Quotes

#1. When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.

Walter Mosley

#2. I love B.C., but you know what taxes are like in Canada.

Ryan Stiles

#3. You run away a lot," said one of the voices. "That is good. You are a survivor." "Survivor? I've nearly been killed dozens of times!" "Exactly.

Terry Pratchett

#4. From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.

William Carlos Williams

#6. Ronan and Declan Lynch were undeniably brothers, with the same dark brown hair and sharp nose, but Declan was solid where Ronan was brittle. Declan's wide jaw and smile said Vote for me while Ronan's buzzed head and thin mouth warned that this species was dangerous.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. You just don't speak geek. That's okay, I can train you.

Alanea Alder

#8. Special interests and opponents have figured out how easy it is to disrupt town halls and get their own message out. The days of the truly free-form town halls may be over.

Mark McKinnon

#9. Since the peace treaties
of 1919 and 1920, the refugees and
the stateless have attached themselves
like a curse to all the newly
established states on earth which
were created in the image of the
nation-state.

Hannah Arendt

#10. If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.

Ron Wyden

#11. The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

Laurence J. Peter

#12. I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers.

Raymond Moody

#13. Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.

Brene Brown

#14. The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn't really there. And the definition of a theologian is he's somebody who finds it.

Michael Ruse

#15. Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

William Ellery Channing

#16. I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.

Robert Breault