Quotes About African American Spirituals

#1. Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

Herman Melville

#2. At its worst, privilege is blindness, allowing us to blithely go on in our god playing, not even aware of the insults to image bearers that happen under our noses every day.

Andy Crouch

#3. We all find means of anesthesia.

Brunonia Barry

#4. My dream collaboration would probably be Sam Smith.

Daya

#5. I'm definitely not your stereotypical actor: the loud, cackling type who strolls into a room and grabs everyone's attention with a great story. I've always been much more of a listener.

Emun Elliott

#6. It is interesting that amongst children of preschool age, the more intelligent ones tend to sleep less than the dull ones. After the age of seven this relationship is reversed, the more intelligent schoolchildren sleeping more than the dull ones.

Desmond Morris

#7. True empathy is not self-focused but other-oriented. Instead of making humanity the measure of all things, we need to evaluate other species by what they are.

Frans De Waal

#8. Do not fear the dark, even when life is dim.
A true seeker will always find light from within

C Enyo

#9. If you have no inner freedom, what kind of freedom do you expect?

Arturo Graf

#10. Your Gods and my Gods - do you or I know which are the stronger? - Native Proverb.

Rudyard Kipling

#11. Always remember this: 'A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses.'

John Lennon

#12. Josh: So, Toby, it's election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it?
Toby: God bless America.

Aaron Sorkin

#13. The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

Robert Plant

#14. I get hired as a writer or producer and I do the best I can to bring out that artist. If somebody calls you to do something, you go right for that vision and you're aware of that person's vibe. You're trying to get inside of them.

Lenny Kravitz

#15. As the African American theologian James Cone notes, "Far from being songs of passive resignation, the spirituals are black freedom songs which emphasize black liberation as consistent with divine revelation.

James Martin

#16. Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos.

Paulo Coelho