Scherben Quotes

#1. People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

Samuel L. Jackson

#2. B.E.E killed: Is it 'cos I'm black?

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#3. Stop making your self-worth conditional on other people. No one, and I mean absolutely no one has the power to devalue your existence.

Elissa Gabrielle

#4. The library is always an adventure!

Ray Bradbury

#5. Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.

Niall Williams

#6. I refuse to remember the dead.
And the dead are bored with the whole thing.
But you - you go ahead,
go on, go back down,
into the graveyard,
lie down where you think their faces are;
talk back to your old bad dreams.

Anne Sexton

#7. I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.

Richard Flanagan

#8. Our desires are like an ocean; vast, and without end.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. The obvious is obviously wrong.

Joseph Granville

#10. To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

Potter Stewart

#11. Supplication is to implore God for mercy and compassion, to have pity upon you or to grant you the request given and expect that He will do it.

Robin Bertram

#12. I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.

David Lynch

#13. Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and true shape and form!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#14. The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.

Nathaniel Parker Willis