Charlayne Hunter-gault Quotes

#1. Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#3. Study men, not historians.

Harry S. Truman

#4. I definitely saw 'The Kill,' when I started it, as an entertainment.

Richard House

#5. If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#6. The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#7. I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#8. Many people use the word God to describe it; I often call it Being. The word Being explains nothing, but nor does God. Being, however, has the advantage that it is an open concept.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. The only way to get through this whole labyrinth thing, like most other crappy things, was to just get through it.

Kami Garcia

#10. As our voices rise in protest, the NSA monitors your every phone call. if you have a cell phone, you are under surveillance. I believe what you do on your cell phone is none of their damn business,

Rand Paul

#11. Really. Is there anything nice to be said about other people's vacations?

Amor Towles

#12. Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!

Thomas Gray

#13. You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#14. Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide.

Thomas Pynchon

#15. Ava, when a man gets a calculator out at the end of a meal to work out what you owe. It's usually not a good sign.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#16. I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault