Kekla Magoon Quotes

#1. The good life . . . cannot be mere indulgence. It must contain a measure of grit and truth," observed geographer Yi-Fu Tuan. Tuan

Eric Weiner

#2. I wish she would just look at me, look at my face and stop talking long enough to see me. To see that things are not right. That none of this is real and I am in some other place.

Kekla Magoon

#3. My shoes dangle from my fingertips because, all things considered, barefoot is better.

Kekla Magoon

#4. For all your years prepare,
And meet them ever alike;
When you are the anvil, bear
When you are the hammer, strike.

Edwin Markham

#5. I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

Walter Dean Myers

#6. Anyone who can see will see you beautiful.

Kekla Magoon

#7. I glance through the rear window at the house. It amazes me slightly that it looks the same as it did, though it's been gutted of so many valuable things. You wouldn't know, to walk past that house, what it had lost. It looks as proud, and as firm, and as fancy as ever. As whole.

Kekla Magoon

#8. My moves are smooth. Always have been. I'm smart enough to see what's coming, and clever enough to turn it my way. All my skills make me perfect for this. The street dance. The hustle.

Kekla Magoon

#9. Sin is not just what the catechism says it is. Sin is not simply that which we commit. Sin is also what we desire but are too weak to do.

Sandor Marai

#10. It's not that you said it. I care that you even though it.

Kekla Magoon

#11. If you just play really hard, he says, nothing else matters.

Kekla Magoon

#12. The river is motion, turmoil, rage. As the river flows, it wonders what it would be like to be so still, to take a breath, to rest. But the rock will always wonder what lies around the bend in the stream.

Kekla Magoon

#13. If you talk about what you believe, you will attract those who believe what you believe.

Simon Sinek

#14. They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.

Rumi

#15. It seemed like a backward step at first, but now I know going back was the only way to show how far I've come.

Kekla Magoon

#16. I believe that God's glory comes to us through many things, through almost everything, because matter itself is a thin veil over God's rich glory spilling through, like light through every crack.

Ned Hayes

#17. As a black man, you have to keep your head down. You have to keep yourself steady. You have to follow every rule that's ever been written, plus a few that have always remained unspoken.

Kekla Magoon

#18. You're only responsible for your own actions. You can't control how someone else reacts to what you do. You made a choice. Stand by it.

Kekla Magoon

#19. Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.

Errol Morris

#20. The river moves, but it follows a path. When it tires of one journey, it rubs through some rock to forge a new way. Hard work, but that's its nature.

Kekla Magoon

#21. I feel strange, like there's an unformed, unfinished, sad little emotion bottled up in me, and I need to fuck it away.

Carolyn Crane

#22. I'm really good with problems. I can solve a differential equation in my head. I chew through trig angles like candy. I know this, and it just makes it worse. Because I don't know how to solve this one.

Kekla Magoon

#23. In the white newspapers, they use it against us. They make the Panthers look like we all just want to rip the throats out of some white folks for no good reason. We have good reasons, but we still don't want to do that.

Kekla Magoon

#24. People make mistakes. They look at the surface of things and see what they want to.

Kekla Magoon

#25. In 'Scream 2', they have this discussion about how sequels always suck.

Thomas Bangalter