Haitian Dyaspora Quotes

#1. Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.

Peter Matthiessen

#2. Lila shook her head skeptically. She was trying to understand, we were both trying to understand, and understanding was something that we loved to do.

Elena Ferrante

#3. Telling you how I know ... what I know ... it could make things worse than they already are ... for all of us

Dennis Sharpe

#4. Whatever I talk about is what I'm interested in at the time. Politics are big with me. But being a mom is taking up most of my time. My act is more family-oriented than it is about politics.

Wanda Sykes

#5. I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.

Creed Bratton

#6. Anytime one tries to take fragments of one's personal mythology and make them understandable to the whole world, one reaches back to the past. It must be dreamed again.

Assotto Saint

#7. The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not a rational process at all; creativity is not born out of reasoning.

Rodolfo R. Llinas

#8. I'm not even an engineer. I don't have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees.

Woody Norris

#9. There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Hosea Ballou

#10. Will slam poems and I slam doors.

Colleen Hoover

#11. Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

Warren G. Bennis

#12. The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. All you need do is forgive. Resentment is an anchor holding you back from that which you desire most. Find the angel within you; cut the anchor line and beat your wings. The winds of forgiveness will stir a hurricane of healing and call up a tide of love that can carry you home.

Emily March

#14. The righteousness by which we are justified is imputed; the righteousness by which we are sanctified is imparted. The first is our title to heaven, the second is our fitness for heaven.

Ellen G. White

#15. I hated being photographed and never wanted to go on red carpets, even though they always asked me to. My place was behind the scenes. I wasn't a diva. I preferred to look at life from the outside.

Giovanna Cau

#16. Born weary of being born, he chose to be a shade; when, then, did he live, and by the transgression of what birth? And if, living, he wore his shroud, by what miracle did he manage to die?

Emil M. Cioran