Nzinga Quotes

#1. When the Dutch ambassador tried to humiliate her by refusing her a seat, Nzinga had shown her power by ordering one of her advisers to all fours to make a human chair of her body. That was the kind of power I sought ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#2. I don't ever want to be where I can't just walk into a mall and do what I want without a crowd coming up a round me.

Delmon Young

#3. What we call beauty is perhaps the strength of our feeling of resistance to destructibility. Difficulty of reproduction is the yardstick of the degree of beauty.

Kobo Abe

#4. When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

Tamsin Greig

#5. In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

#6. Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.

Josephine Lawrence

#7. Before they proceeded to their respective homes, Rudy's voice reached over and handed Liesel the truth. For a while, it sat on her shoulder, but a few thoughts later, it made its way to her ear.

Markus Zusak

#8. He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. She is half a soul, hungry or another...

The girl, she may not know, but she will drink your soul. She cannot help it. Half a soul will kill to be whole.

Erika Swyler