Iyalla Quotes

#1. Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

Amiri Baraka

#2. I'm chasing you. I'm going to chase you until you give this a chance.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#3. I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on ... By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch.

James A. Baldwin

#4. I jolt up, a scream lodged in my throat. Drops of sweat roll down my forehead and my throat hurts as if I've been screaming for a long time.

Ashley Earley

#5. I have broken my collarbone twice in a year.

Casey Stoner

#6. The pursuit of knowledge and the skills that come with it must be done strategically. We must put the society we live in into serious consideration before we embark on this journey.

We can't isolate our skills from the need of the society we live in

Emi Iyalla

#7. Learning a language is not interesting than knowing how it works.

Ritesh Shrivastav

#8. Judge us not equally, Abraham. We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others

Seth Grahame-Smith

#9. People keep asking me ... How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#10. Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the same set of rules. The middle-class can't carry the burden any longer, that is what happened in the last decade. They had to bail out Wall Street.

Stephanie Cutter

#11. None of this is to deny that the Niger Delta has made mistakes. It has, and a good number at that. But then, mistakes are made to make wiser and therefore help in better decision making.

Emi Iyalla

#12. It ain't easy to do nothing, now that society is telling everyone that their body is fundamentally flawed and about to self-destruct. People are afraid they're on the verge of death all the time

Samuel Shem

#13. The Niger delta as a matter of urgency needs to re-think its development strategy by developing her non-oil sectors. There is no easy way out of this, and we will all see that at the end it is the only way out.

Emi Iyalla

#14. People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

Keith Henson

#15. Paper qualification is no longer enough in today's competitive society. You need skills that people will pay for.

Emi Iyalla

#16. I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.

Flannery O'Connor

#17. Holding anger is a poison ... It eats you from inside ... We think that by hating someone we hurt them ... But hatred is a curved blade ... and the harm we do to others ... we also do to ourselves.

Mitch Albom

#18. Weeks passed, my suitcase grew more and more conventional. "I've got something for you," I'd say to a teenager. "It's nothing huge,

David Sedaris