Delois Quotes

#1. DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth as she walked by. Her crispy hair twinkled in the summer sun as her big proud stomach moved her on down the block while I watched, not caring whether or not she was a poem.

Audre Lorde

#2. Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.

Andre Gide

#3. What the use of having ignorance if you can't show it?

Lou Costello

#4. I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#5. You're what," she whispered. "I want to hear you say it." "I'm hard," he moaned. "For you." Yes,

J.R. Ward

#6. We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

Abraham Lincoln

#7. A girl playing rock and roll, it's saying I own my sexuality and I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do. And I think people just find that threatening.

Joan Jett

#8. Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.

Vance Havner

#9. Nature abhors the vacuum tube.

John R. Pierce

#10. To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Emily Dickinson

#11. Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support.

Jennifer Granholm

#12. There's no right answer
to the wrong question.
Now what do we do?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#13. I don't understand why people expect tips. In hotels you order food in your room, and it's already more expensive from the room service menu, so it's a cheek to expect a tip on top. I do sometimes reward good service, but it should be at my discretion, and I'm not going to be held to ransom.

Bernard Hill

#14. I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will always be life - but they're getting sicker every year.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#15. Alice: Is it because she's successful?
Dan: No. It's because... she doesn't need me.

Patrick Marber

#16. I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.

John Breaux