Van Sertima Quotes

#1. I loved Vinny like he was a part of me, and he loved me like a stick of gum. He'd spat me out when the flavor went, unwrapped another, and stuffed it in, and not just anyone, but Stella Yearwood. My best mate.

David Mitchell

#2. The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Charles Spurgeon

#3. You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light of the world.

Ivan Van Sertima

#4. After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

A. S. W. Rosenbach

#5. Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

Bill Ayers

#6. Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

Voltaire

#7. Name the horizon, and it's ours."
By the time the auditorium doors opened, they were gone

Alexandra Bracken

#8. You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.

Ivan Van Sertima