Top 22 Schomburg Quotes
#1. I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.
Chadwick Boseman
#2. My will is not a place, but a condition. Do not ask Me where and when, but ask Me how.
Frances J Roberts
#3. If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?
Tina Brown
#5. When he walks, he sounds like a tree still full of dead leaves holding on.
Zachary Schomburg
#6. We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and body, with phosphorescent light, brighten the chasm that separates us. We should cling to them just as blood is thicker than water.
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
#8. Instead of teaching us to love one another and help each other in our sorrow, they teach us the deplorable history of our countries, which are steeped in hatred and blood." Late
Leslie Stainton
#9. Inside the woods is an abandoned hotel.
Trees grow in the lobby
and up through the rooms.
Limbs jut out through the windows.
It looks like outside
inside.
I climb the trees
through 1000 rooms.
I look for you
in each of them.
You're a long shiny line.
Zachary Schomburg
#10. People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy ... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.
Daniel Kahneman
#11. Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I'm interested in.
Zachary Schomburg
#12. Who is God? Who am I? What does God want to do for his kingdom purposes through my unique voice?
Keith R. Anderson
#13. The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten.
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
#15. Carol Guess's poems are sexy, intuitive, angry, and hopeful. These lyrical narratives measure the impossibly small distance between love and fear. They are a reminder that we're all vulnerable little vessels filled by the people who can break us.
Zachary Schomburg
#17. The traditional way to use roses is in beds. These can be any shape and are an attractive, albeit conservative, choice for a formal garden. More exciting
Maggie Oster
#18. I think that technology is much more mysterious to the people using it than, say, the automobile was. This isn't an original observation, but a lot of the smart devices people rely on now really do feel like magic to a lot of us.
Charlie Jane Anders
#19. One day, when all the continents have been buried in ocean, we'll slowly float past each other in our little boats, hearing our own hearts in each other's chest, and watch each other like stars we don't know are dead.
Zachary Schomburg
#21. A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#22. Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism.
Swami Vivekananda
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