Wnyc Podcasts Quotes

#1. From the house of unbelief
to true religion
is a single breath;
From the world of doubt
to certainty
is a single breath;
Enjoy this precious single breath,
for the harvest
of our whole lives
is that same one breath.

Omar Khayyam

#2. If you admit a unison, you forfeit all the possibilities of chaos ... Love is a direction which excludes all other directions. It is a freedom together, if you like.

D.H. Lawrence

#3. Loving yourself is not antithetical to health, it is intrinsic to health. You can't take good care of a thing you hate.

Lindy West

#4. In the solitude of meditation, when your conscious mind becomes quiet, your subconscious reveals herself.

Nityananda Das

#5. I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

Francis Chan

#6. People aren't reading self-published authors because people can't even get past the poor quality of the samples. They aren't reading books they don't want to read.

Linda Hilton

#7. We can pretend this never happened."
"Up to you." He touched my cheek with his fingertips, and I felt like an electrical cable to my nervous system went live. "I wouldn't mind finishing the job."
"Let's not promise each other anything."
"All right. No promises," he said.

C.D. Reiss

#8. I think Obama was terribly sexist.

Geraldine Ferraro

#9. We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face.

Chuck D

#10. The histories of Blacks and Jews in bondage and out of bondage, have been blood histories pursued through our kindred searchings for self-determination. Let this blood be a stain of honor that we share. Let us not now become enemies to ourselves and to each other.

June Jordan