Hazel Scott Quotes

#1. There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

Hazel Scott

#2. To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer the birth pangs of the Soul-Mother of Humanity.

Dan Simmons

#3. I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it.

Hazel Scott

#4. Landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.

Patricia Hampl

#5. To teach is to learn ... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.

Richard Pousette-Dart

#6. Elegy of the Death of a Mad Dog The dog, to gain some praivate ends, Went mad and bit the man.

Oliver Goldsmith

#7. I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.

Hazel Scott

#8. Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.

Hazel Scott

#9. Now, if laughter is proper to the human being, then the human being who does not laugh invites the charge of inhumanity, or at least makes us somewhat suspicious.

Simon Critchley

#10. If you reach for something and find out it's the wrong thing, you change your program and move on.

Hazel Scott

#11. In my film 'Queen', there was a funny moment with the bra. My director called and said they are blurring the bra. They said it is vulgar. Our director was furious about it. We are artistes ... We see props as they are. A woman's bra is not a danger to the society.

Kangana Ranaut

#12. Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower; Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride, Group'd their dark hues with every stain The weather-beaten crags retain.

Walter Scott

#13. WWBD? What would Buffy do?

Cherie Ullman

#14. There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Hazel Scott

#15. There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Jackie Robinson

#16. We live in an extraordinary time

Fernando Flores

#17. You deserve more than a secondhand I love you.

Colleen Hoover

#18. Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.

Hazel Scott

#19. I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

Hazel Scott

#20. Nothing belongs to us, not even ourselves. But the exchange rate is unbelievable. All of our sin is transferred to Christ's account, and all of His righteousness is transferred to our account. God cancels our debt, writes us into His will, and calls it even!

Mark Batterson

#21. I have always respected everyone's ...

Hazel Scott

#22. Some people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I from you nor you from me, nor from anyone, nor from anything, nor from what happens.

Marguerite Duras