Jazz Toni Morrison Quotes

#1. And yet, I am left with a kind of sadness that I can't quite explain.

Valerie Sherrard

#2. An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

Sivananda

#3. All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

Fidel Castro

#4. I could have an office all to myself but since my collaborators don't have one, then I too am contented to have a desk in a shared room.

Ingvar Kamprad

#5. I don't want to be a free nigger; I want to be a free man."
"Don't we all. Look. Be what you want
white or black. Choose. But if you choose black, you got to act black, meaning draw your manhood up - quicklike, and don't bring me no whiteboy sass."
Hunter's Hunter and Godlen Gray

Toni Morrison

#6. He fell for an eighteen-year old girl with one of those deepdown spooky loves that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going.

Toni Morrison

#7. The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

Julia Cameron

#8. Your brain is the most important organ in your body, and what happens in it determines what you think and feel, say and do. Many studies show that your experiences are continually changing your brain one way or another. This book is about getting good at changing your brain for the better.

Rick Hanson

#9. Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose.

Toni Morrison

#10. ... he didn't needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood and disappear.

Toni Morrison

#11. The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition.

Tim Weiner

#12. The holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation to every quarter where Christians live; and these God-fearing people, elated, stand in their doorways and greet it reverently, the strength, the salvation of the universe, the Cross.

C.P. Cavafy

#13. There might be some brilliant intentionality in it all, that holiness was created to stand in mankind's filth to lift mankind out of that very filth.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

Steve Jobs

#15. Similarly, when women offer suggestions for improvement, managers judge them as less loyal than men and are less likely to implement their proposals. Especially

Adam M. Grant

#16. What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

Bryan Singer

#17. Don't get me wrong - I'll put $25 on the ground and then if you pick it up and we have sex in an alley, that's not a crime. That's a coincidence.

Eugene Mirman