La Diaspora Quotes

#1. My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that I can communicate with the voice of this generation.

Erykah Badu

#2. Take an act of magnanimity that is difficult, quiet, muted, without splendour, where you're slandered, where there's much sacrifice and not a drop of glory.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. What like the apprehension of free forgiveness (and that apprehension must come in through a sight of the greatness of sin, and of inability to do any thing towards satisfaction), to engage the heart of a rebel to love his prince, and to submit to his laws?

John Bunyan

#4. She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale, thin face with kisses.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. Do your married friends tell you that you're too picky? Honey, they settled. Either that or they're not really your friends.

Maria Murnane

#6. What the fuck are cavemen doing here?

Peter Clines

#7. I don't think it's not feminist to use every tool you have to succeed, and part of that is being a woman - presenting yourself in a certain way.

Christina Hendricks

#8. My insides feel like they are crumbling like a towering JENGA game. I lose.

Steph Campbell

#9. Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.

John C. Maxwell

#10. I like to look at the glass half full.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#11. I envy the happiness of others ... I envy the sense of belonging ... I seem always to be remaking myself.

Richard Eyre