Odetta Quotes

#1. She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was *white.* Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt!

Stephen King

#2. I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights movement wouldn't have the same resonance without the songs from everyone from Pete Seeger to Odetta to James Brown.

Saul Williams

#3. The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

Odetta

#4. No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.

Odetta

#5. Understanding who you are is critical for your career advancement. Self-awareness helps you get ahead.

Bonnie Marcus

#6. My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

Tea Obreht

#7. Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

Lee Konitz

#8. You're walking down life's road, society's foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can't get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.

Odetta

#9. She stalked toward me, hips swaying side to side, eyes hardened with anger. Echo pushed her body agaist mine, parts of her fitting perfectly into parts of me. I swore under my breath, fighting for control over my body.

Katie McGarry

#10. However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold.

Richard Halverson

#11. Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Gordon R. Dickson

#12. The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

Paul Weyrich

#13. In this sense, the world of tomorrow will be more like the Silicon Valley of today: constant change and chaos.

Reid Hoffman

#14. If your neighbor looks at you like they don't enjoy the key you're singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing.

Odetta

#15. A simple life freely given in love can transcend the boundaries of place and time, stretching across oceans and extending beyond continents and decades.

Leslie Parrott

#16. Tell your story.
That's the secret of immortality. The one true way to live forever.

Brad Meltzer

#17. The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they often should. I think we still look to authority figures for validation, recognition, permission.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#19. To see me real native language is like to search in empty bucket, I use my native language few times and English more often. But who is my native language and have I used it already?? (is the best question!)

Deyth Banger

#20. I feel like a nude little piece of white meat out here.

Cody Lundin

#21. The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.

Odetta

#22. Time and ka and trains. I'm thinking about them and many other things.
(Lady of Shadows: Dark Tower, The Drawing of the Three)

Stephen King