Caste Isabel Wilkerson Quotes

#1. Don't say anything unless you can improve on the silence.

Michael Robotham

#2. Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured.

Isabel Wilkerson

#3. Sporks are only used in the most dire situations.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#4. I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could.

Eddie Vedder

#5. The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man.

Dusty Springfield

#6. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

Ayn Rand

#7. Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

Bette Midler

#8. I talk shit about everybody and then sulk when they don't call me, my friends fall away like I've dropped them out of an airplane, my ex-boyfriend thinks I'm Hitler when he sees me.

Daniel Handler

#9. First, I'm not pestering you. I'm trying to make it clear that I want to fuck you into oblivion. Second, there is no other woman that I'm interested in. Clear enough for you?

Sawyer Bennett

#10. Liberalism is a series of grievances in addition to everything else that it is.

Rush Limbaugh

#11. If we must "feel" God's presence before we believe he is with us, we again reduce God to our ability to grasp him, making him an idol instead of acknowledging him as God.

Craig S. Keener

#12. You can go as far as God takes you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. I write because I believe

Anamika Mishra

#14. I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

Warren Christopher

#15. It isn't till now, in the American Century, as we have recklessly dubbed it, that tribal pressures toward conformity have been brought to bear so ruthlessly upon men and women seeking to work creatively.

Nelson Algren