Tracie Thoms Quotes

#1. There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

Timothy Keller

#2. Where there is kashay, they are all considered heaps of parigraha (worldly possessiveness); whether one is living in the Himalayas or in a cave. Where there is absence of kashays, there is absence of possessiveness; even if one is then living in a palace!

Dada Bhagwan

#3. I love 'Braxton Family Values!' I love seeing a strong family unit striving for success while dealing with everyday struggles like everyone else. Whatever drama they find themselves in, they find a way to solve it and get back to the importance of family. A positive show for sure.

Drew Sidora

#4. I'm really looking forward to developing just really fun, complex, interesting stories about people who happen to be black.

Tracie Thoms

#5. It's the diary that makes the man.

George Grossmith

#6. It's amazing that it's considered revolutionary to wear my hair the way it grows out of my head.

Tracie Thoms

#7. Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?

Peter Behrens

#8. You don't have to be famous to be great.

Rick Warren

#9. Jesus girls! Wake up! If a guy wants to drain you of your energy, emotions, and life force he won't sparkle in the sunshine, he'll just marry you.

Nick Shamhart

#10. I think theater will always be my first love. I've been doing it since I was nine, and there's nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.

Tracie Thoms

#11. I don't want to control anybody's mind or anybody's heart
I just want to help free people from the concert of sex as evil instead of a gift from God.

Mary Calderone

#12. There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

Ansel Adams

#13. People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair.

Tracie Thoms

#14. If we can teach everyone how to calm their minds, this world will see peace.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.

Mark Rydell

#16. The L.A. theater scene is very different. The perception has been that people who love theater do theater in New York. The people who want to be discovered do theater on the side in L.A. But there are people who are very dedicated to theater who love theater in L.A.

Tracie Thoms

#17. I like shows that are ensemble-based, that explore the humanity of every character.

Tracie Thoms