Black Woman Writer Quotes

#1. No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much" ... No woman has ever written enough.

Bell Hooks

#2. In Damascus:
the traveler sings to himself:
I return from Syria
neither alive
nor dead
but as clouds
that ease the butterfly's burden
from my fugitive soul

Mahmoud Darwish

#3. What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. If honor calls, where'er she points the way
The sons of honor follow, and obey.

Charles Churchill

#5. The task ahead of me is never as great as the Power within me.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Naya H. Jones

#6. Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

Cotton Mather

#7. If I were giving a young man advice as to how he might succeed in life, I would say to him, pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio. WILBUR WRIGHT

David McCullough

#8. When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

Terry Tempest Williams

#9. I felt like I needed to crawl under my blankets.
And I did for about an hour. My self-pity always had a time limit because I usually got annoyed with myself.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#10. Nadua was stunned by his gentleness; when he looked as though ready to tear the flesh from her throat with his lengthening fangs.

Kiersten Fay

#11. Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.

William Graham Sumner

#12. You don't step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.

Tom Hardy

#13. It seems like we're spending billions of dollars on whiz-bang technology and not enough money on human resources, which really is proven to be the most effective way of stopping terrorism.

Mike Huckabee