Luisah Teish Quotes

#1. Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering.

Kane Freeman

#2. People say to me all the time that I threw some money into some guy's coffee cup [by accident, thinking they were poor]. People do make the same sort of mistake. I've made attempts to volunteer that have been calamitous!

Nicole Holofcener

#3. Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.

Veronica Roth

#4. One burst after another as my wife turned in her sleep. I was a single monkey trying to type the opening lines of my Hamlet,

Billy Collins

#5. When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

Edmund White

#6. It's death," I say, refusing to raise my voice, "because when you're hungry, you can't stop thinking about eating other people.

Rainbow Rowell

#7. Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

Evan Osnos

#8. We are the ancestors of the future and what we do now will have an impact.

Luisah Teish

#9. I see the life draining out of her and something else taking its place, but I don't know what. Maybe that's the problem. Maybe nothing is taking its place.

Jan Strnad

#10. I think that there is just a deep and abiding sexism that's part of your life from the moment that you're conscious as a female.

Liz W. Garcia

#11. Sometimes the ancestors deem certain information so important that they send it to the subconscious mind without being consciously asked.

Luisah Teish

#12. If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

Norman Cousins

#13. When they first kiss, there on the beach, they will kneel at the edge of the Pacific and say a prayer of thanks, sending all the stories of love inside them out in a fleet of bottles all across the oceans of the world.

Francesca Lia Block

#14. It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.

Graham Greene

#15. I maintain that the biggest challenge in the new millennium could be a change of habit. We could change from a dominating commodity culture into one of true exchange in which we learn from each other in humility and respect. I do think it's possible. But it's up to us.

Luisah Teish

#16. I'm a powerful being ... a wizard," Corny said. "So don't try anything."
"Yes," said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. "No. Try nothing.

Holly Black

#17. I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth.

Ishmael Reed