Michaela Deprince Quotes

#1. When I get you back, I'm gonna put that necklace back around your neck and pin you. He tries to hold my eyes with his own. 'Like the 1950s.

Jenny Han

#2. I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina,

Michaela DePrince

#3. We were blessed, and with blessing comes responsibility.

Michaela DePrince

#4. I know that trolls are fundamentally sad people; I know that I've already defeated them in every substantive arena - by being smart, by being happy, by being successful, by being listened to, by being loved.

Lindy West

#5. Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.

Michaela DePrince

#6. Life is a gift for the wise, a playground for the foolish, a heaven for the rich, and a hell for the poor.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. A ghastly creeping terror rises from a place beyond thoughts. Some innermost trapdoor she must leap upon immediately and lean against with all her weight and padlock shut.

Anthony Doerr

#8. I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.

Mo Yan

#9. My life is proof that no matter what situation you're in, as long as you have a supportive family, you can achieve anything.

Michaela DePrince

#10. Frazier said that the Negro middle class had borrowed its bourgeois style and traditional religion from the white middle class, which was itself intellectually and culturally barren. Black people should look to their own heritage, he said, create their own culture.

Howard Zinn

#11. To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.

Dogen