Jessie Fauset Quotes

#1. Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

Jessie Redmon Fauset

#2. The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting.

Jessie Redmon Fauset

#3. What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?

Marsha Norman

#4. To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher ...

Jessie Redmon Fauset

#5. I think of the Kennedy family and I think of their faith ... Along came John F. Kennedy and a part of his legacy is that ... he didn't just break the Catholic barrier, he crushed it.

Doug Wead

#6. I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.

Patti LaBelle

#7. Bell lifted her hand to her chest. Her heart beat so quickly. She was floating out on a tide of agony, and soon she would be carried so far she'd never come back.

Ayana Mathis

#8. When you don't have anything or anyone else on earth, all of a sudden God starts looking really good. Something about us needs to long for heaven. When everything is right and everything works - be honest, we don't long for heaven or for God. We just don

Jennie Allen

#9. The Complex of color ... every colored man feels it sooner or later. It gets in the way of his dreams, of his education, of his marriage, of the rearing of his children.

Jessie Redmon Fauset

#10. Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.

Jessie Redmon Fauset

#11. Old words are reborn with new faces.

Criss Jami