Ossie Quotes

#1. How much the pain grew inside him after Ossie died until the only way to deal with it was to throw himself into the fray. And the whole time, Vanessa's body was wrapped around him like she was the only one being strong as a shield while he stripped his life bare.

Melissa Cutler

#2. I am not a hoarder, but my wardrobe is the antithesis of fast fashion. I buy clothes - beautiful in looks and make - to last. I originally stored away things like Ossie Clark because I could not bear to part with such treasures.

Suzy Menkes

#3. 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

#4. As Ossie Jones crept out of his body and into the mist, his heart murmured till it was silent.

Biyi Bandele-Thomas

#5. Rick Owens is my desert island designer. I could live in his clothes alone, and I collect Ossie Clark.

Mia Sara

#6. This is it, the geographical limit of how far I'll go for Ossie. We are learning longitude and latitude in school, and it makes my face burn that I can graph the coordinates of my own love and courage with such damning precision.

Karen Russell

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

Ossie Davis

#8. ... 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)

Ossie Davis

#9. 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

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

Ossie Davis

#11. 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

#12. Travel light, was all she ever said about the house when he suggested he buy her a lamp or anything, and he suspected that she would have said the same thing about having more friends.

Junot Diaz

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

Ossie Davis

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

Ossie Davis

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

Ossie Davis

#16. People say there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.

John C. Maxwell

#17. Pitching is a priority.

Tom Hicks

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

Ossie Davis

#19. Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Edmund Burke

#20. 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.

Ossie Davis

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

Ossie Davis

#22. Leave it to a dude to roll in with your technique, but use a jackhammer instead of jeweler's screwdrivers.

Roberto Hogue