Quotes About Middle Passage

#1. In this way, racism is rendered as the innocent daughter of Mother Nature, and one is left to deplore the Middle Passage or the Trail of Tears the way one deplores an earthquake, a tornado, or any other phenomenon that can be cast as beyond the handiwork of men.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#2. The only requisite to entry into the Middle Passage is to have discovered that one does not know who one is, that there are no rescuers, no Mommy or Daddy, and that one's fellow travelers will do well to survive themselves.

James Hollis

#3. You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to ... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

Henry Louis Gates

#4. I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

Arthur Ashe

#5. Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.

Tananarive Due

#6. Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number-
Shake your chains to earth like
dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many-they are few.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#7. I do not think homosexuality is immoral.

Hillary Clinton

#8. We live equally out of our bodies and out of our minds.

R.D. Laing

#9. The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.

Leland Ryken

#10. I have been to Graceland a hundred times. Every kid in middle Tennessee has this night where it hits midnight, and they are like, 'Let's go to Graceland!' It's a rite of passage. I did it.

DJ Qualls

#11. And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

James Lee Burke

#12. She'll let you put her in her place. But she won't stand for anything worse than first.

J. Raymond

#13. The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white Southerners, to whom the Republican Party was anathema until the 1970s and '80s, after which it became almost the sole representative.

Noah Feldman

#14. It's all fine to say, "Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget" - and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.

John Steinbeck

#15. It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.

Robin Marantz Henig

#16. Steve [Jobs] proves that it's OK to be an asshole ... He just has a different OS.

Guy Kawasaki

#17. Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

Alan Paton

#18. Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.

Noah Hawley

#19. EACH DAY OF HUMAN life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature's grand design-do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things.

Morihei Ueshiba

#20. Healthy church membership means you find your joy in being last, instead of seeking your way and being first.

Thom S. Rainer

#21. Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

Francis Parkman

#22. There are sounds to seasons. There are sounds to places, and there are sounds to every time in one's life. ALISON WYRLEY BIRCH

Julia Cameron

#23. After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first.

Howard Carter

#24. It's when you see yourself as different rather than better, that you truly become a change that interferes with the world rather that allowing that world, in its different dynamics and forms of expression, to be interfering with you.

Robin Sacredfire

#25. I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#26. I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now.

Roger McGough

#27. Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Gilbert K. Chesterton