Johnnetta Cole Quotes

#1. The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.

Johnnetta B. Cole

#2. I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.

Dave Winfield

#3. I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

Sam Waterston

#4. The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

Johnnetta B. Cole

#5. You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

Johnnetta B. Cole

#6. What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.

Johnnetta B. Cole

#7. The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past.

Johnnetta B. Cole

#8. Megan could have kissed him. If there weren't a million obstacles, both physical and psychological, in her way, of course.

Kate Brian

#9. Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.

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#10. The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

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#11. Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

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#12. Weed out worry, guilt, hate and fear from your life. Live in the present moment earnestly and wisely, without mourning about the past or anticipating troubles in the future.

Sanchita Pandey

#13. There are not many of us African American Sister Presidents, and those of us who are in this field do not have an easy time of it. Why the story goes that one Black woman college president died and went to hell, and it was two weeks before she realized that she wasn't still on the job.

Johnnetta B. Cole

#14. I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal racial segregation or you called it apartheid, it was the same injustice.

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#15. The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.

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#16. The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.

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#17. Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.

Johnnetta B. Cole

#18. I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

Bear Bryant

#19. Have you ever seen a world so amazing you wanted to inhale it, like air sucking into a jet engine? And the more you inhaled, the faster you flew, until you knew, without having to ask anyone else, that you were living?

S.W. Southwick

#20. Racism is alive and doing too well in America.

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#21. I don't like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, "I'm only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world." I don't like to say that to people either. But, I do think there's a loss of romance.

Jimmy Page

#22. While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

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#23. Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

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#24. Clare concentrated on the words trying hard to press them into her memory and wishing they were solid objects that she could keep and carry around with her.

Marisa De Los Santos

#25. Truth is a questioning place.

Jeanette Winterson

#26. I'm even going to electrolyze my urine. That'll make for a pleasant smell in the trailer.

If I survive this, I'll tell people I was pissing rocket fuel.

Andy Weir

#27. I almost never have a plan for myself ... I'm not ambitious in that way.

Martha Plimpton

#28. If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

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#29. At the door to the helicopter, Gansey looked bad over his shoulder at them, his smile complicated when he saw them holding hands.

Maggie Stiefvater

#30. If we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.

Johnnetta B. Cole

#31. The trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!

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