Charlotte Forten Grimke Quotes

#1. Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath.

Suheir Hammad

#2. Hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no other injury could be so hard to bear, so very very hard to forgive, as that inflicted by cruel oppression and prejudice.

Charlotte Forten Grimke

#3. I've had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.

Rose McGowan

#4. Spirituality is about developing the inner sights by opening the third eye and the eyes of the heart.

Amit Ray

#5. The success of the masterpieces seems to lie not so much in their freedom from faults - indeed we tolerate the grossest errors in them all - but in the immense persuasiveness of a mind which has completely mastered its perspective.

Virginia Woolf

#6. What lies inside a cage of flames? The truth, the heart, but burned up before you can see it. Only traces remain in the ashes, a pattern you guess at or invent, an intangible thing that might leave a mark, but could just as easily blow away.

Rene Steinke

#7. We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.

Charlotte Forten Grimke

#9. I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.

Anna Quindlen

#10. I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.

Ed Oxenbould

#11. The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

Bob Dylan

#12. God, why didn't you make us all dogs?

Anne Rice

#13. What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children's school reports. This is particularly true for primary schools. Parents wanted to know much more than just how their children were doing academically.

Carol J. Adams

#14. Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.

Simon Sinek

#15. I am among those who firmly believe that a round of golf should not take more than three and a half hours, four at most. Anything longer than that is not a round of golf, it's life in Albania.

Dan Jenkins

#16. Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

Kurt Vonnegut