Walidah Quotes

#1. We Black people cannot outrun our demons. Nor should we ever want to. We will embrace them as our lost Beloveds, and listen to the songs they sing to bring us through the darkness. - Walidah

Walidah Imarisha

#2. I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.

W. H. Auden

#3. hipsters and entrepreneurs were complicated locusts. they ate up everything in sight, but they meant well.

Walidah Imarisha

#4. I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.

Dan Quayle

#5. Because many of the people who were taken by the wasting disease happened to be white, God was not a viable culprit.

Walidah Imarisha

#6. Our ancestors dreamed us up and then bent reality to create us.

Walidah Imarisha

#7. While the larger white society lives in terror of liberated Blackness, of the "demons" unleashed coming after them, we know many of our spirits haunt us out of love, out of a desire for all that was unfairly stolen from them.

Walidah Imarisha

#8. I divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which still has the same village feel that it had in the swinging Sixties.

Mary Quant

#9. It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours. Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.

John Berger

#10. But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

Henry L. Stimson

#11. Together they unlocked potential in one another. They worked hard and played harder, until the work felt like play. Everything

Walidah Imarisha

#12. He turned and looked her solemnly in the eyes. "Is it too much to ask for a happy ending?" She smiled sadly. "I don't think there are any happy endings left.

Walidah Imarisha

#13. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

Barry Lopez

#14. What would be achieved ever if people lost the ability to dream?

Martha Albrand

#15. But there was so much injustice. As soon as one field of hatred and oppression was burned, another crop came into harvest. It never ended and Jane grew tired.

Walidah Imarisha

#16. Vocally, I really like going into the darker side of myself.

Dave Gahan