Quotes About Guyanese

#1. 'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Dev Hynes

#2. Representative Leo J. Ryan understood the manipulation phenomena people were describing to him and he lost his life in a Guyanese jungle investigating how Jim Jones bent minds.

Leo Ryan

#3. I've dated interracially a lot. I grew up in Harlem, so I've dated Latins, Dominican, Guyanese, Cuban, black, white.

Mekhi Phifer

#4. She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I amwithout adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world.

Sharon Maas

#5. Getting angry with her cousin, she reminded herself, was like getting angry with a sheep for being stupid. It ruined your day and the sheep was too dim to care.

Ruth Downie

#6. If you have to die [ ... ] better to go down fighting. Better to die in company. Better not be the last, and alone, weighed down with all that knowing.

Elizabeth Bear

#7. My aspiration isn't to be some fashion photographer or anything. I think that's a space that's occupied by people that have a full-time commitment to the industry. You have to really be 100% invested to be successful in that industry.

C. J. Wilson

#8. Sometimes it's the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.

Lysa TerKeurst

#9. The value of threats is determined by our reaction.

Gavin De Becker

#10. Insecurity is like a net, and I let it catch me.

Autumn Doughton

#11. We lived together as kids, and now we're taking care of each other as men.

Aaron Neville

#12. I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.

Ishmael Reed