Ossie Davis Quotes

#1. Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth.

Bill Cobbs

#2. Any form of art is a form of power.

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#3. One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.

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#4. ... Harlem was home; was where we belonged; where we knew and were known in return; where we felt most alive; where, if need be, somebody had to take us in. Harlem defined us, claiming our consciousness and, I suspect, our unconsciousness. (Page 64)

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#5. It is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the journey, to work for peace wherever we are at all times, because the liberty we cherish, which we would share with the world, demands eternal vigilance.

Ossie Davis

#6. Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.

John Pugsley

#7. I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

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#8. It occurred to us, from observation and from reasonin, that extra marital sex was not what really destroyed marriages, but rather the lies and deception that invariably accompanied it
that was the culprit. Page 317

Ossie Davis Ruby Dee

#9. Heaven, or the kingdom of God, is easy if e work at it hard, but hard if we work at it easy.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#10. I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

R. Kelly

#11. If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

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#12. Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

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#13. We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

Michael Pollan

#14. Forgiving someone only absolves you from holding them accountable. When that person has not truly met that accountability, it is a weakness on your end, Miss Rachael. To forgive when they are unrepentant only relieves you of that responsibility.

Deidre Huesmann

#15. Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes,

James Cameron

#16. I feel like I experienced my 20s in all their glory and all their disastrousness.

Sienna Miller

#17. I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.

Mike Tyson

#18. It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not

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#19. NO TRESPASSING and SOLICITORS WARMLY GREETED WITH GUNFIRE signs,

Marcus Sakey

#20. The more isolated a person is, the more destructive the power of sin over him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#21. Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

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#22. The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.

Lucretia Mott

#23. What do you want from me, Crank?"
He gritted his teeth, and I saw his Adam's apple bob as he swallowed. "I want to know what you look like with that dress off. I want to take you home with me and tear it off and make love to you until you scream.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#24. College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

Ossie Davis