Top 40 Leonard Pitts Quotes
#1. Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.
Tavis Smiley
#2. He's got the whole bad-boy-in-need-of-redemption thing going on, but the catch is, most bad boys don't want redemption. They like being bad. They like the power they get from striking fear and panic into the hearts of mothers everywhere
Becca Fitzpatrick
#4. Conservationists who want to cosset nature like a delicate flower, to protect it from the threat of alien species, are the ethnic cleansers of nature, neutralizing the forces that they should be promoting.
Fred Pearce
#5. To lose your memory is not just to lose everything you have. It's to lose everything you are. It's to lose your very self. What are you without the things you remember.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
#7. Only by vigilance toward everyone's rights do we protect anyone's rights.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
#8. Sometimes, you simply must follow your heart," she said. "No reasonable man can blame you for that." A smile. "No reasonable woman can, either.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
#10. Do that which serves your cause, not that which serves your rage.
Leonard Pitts
#11. I actually feel about 15 percent peaceful, which is a huge improvement over my normal 5 percent.
Kirstin Cronn-Mills
#13. It was skin, she decided. Only skin. And it had no power to add or subtract or otherwise alter her fundamental understanding of her own self.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
#14. You never know where to look when eating a banana.
Peter Kay
#16. Our focus should not be on emerging technologies, but on emerging cultural practices.
Henry Jenkins
#18. You could get lost in and never care about finding your way back.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
#19. That's funny, isn't it, how you can know him one way and we can know him some way completely different. Funny how a person can contradict their own self.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
#20. It don't matter none where you start in life. What matters is where you finish.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
#21. You think you've reached the bottom. Then you find out the bottom has a basement.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
#22. Not everyone has something to say. This will not stop them from saying it.
Leonard Pitts
#23. I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.
Patrick DeWitt
#24. Self-love is extremely important. Love yourself enough to be unique; forge your own path. Stand out if you must!
Apryl L Yates
#25. Too often our leaders cannot work for the greater good because they acknowledge no good greater than politics. But if that's truly our prime directive and highest imperative, God help us all.
Leonard Pitts
#26. He had not known until that moment that your heart can break with love, that it can fill with such inexpressible tenderness till you just about can't stand it anymore.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
#28. Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#31. It occurred to Mo that he didn't have any pictures of himself as a boy. Every photo he owned, every memento of his life, was from after. It was as if he had been born the day he left. He had gone out from here and invented himself.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
#32. The headline here is not that a woman exposed a breast. It is, rather, that a breast exposed a woman.
Leonard Pitts
#33. You could never tell if he was with you or not, so Cooley liked to talk to him just in case. Just to remind them both that this was still a human being. He never wanted to catch himself treating Jack like a thing, a chore to be done.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
#34. Love is a powerful tie, son. At the end, it's the thing that pulls us back together when everything else has pulled us apart.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
#36. In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
Robert Hall
#37. When the inky blackness above shades to a deep blue and the stars lose their hard edge and begin to seem unreal, she rises, wrapping the thin sheet about herself, and steps outside into the morning chill.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
#38. Trying to get stuff straight right at the end when you never cared all through your life. Trying to get into heaven on the affirmative action plan.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
#40. I thought I felt this connection between us but . . . I wanted you to like me, that's all, really like me. What you and Kay had - have - whatever, I've never had that. To my horror there are tears in my eyes.
Cynthia Hand
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