Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes
There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.
Quotes to Explore
-
Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
-
God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
-
As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
-
With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
-
I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
-
In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
-
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
-
'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
-
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
-
You love for a quarterback to sometimes make the decision as the rush is coming and make the decision as the play, as opposed to where that computer is hitting it fast and he's knowing where to go with the ball at the right time.
-
At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
-
Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
-
When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
-
It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.
-
No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance and power of seeing whither he goes.
-
My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
-
LeBron James needs to go to another team with two superstars already so he can win a championship.
-
When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
-
If you happen to live close to the desert border, you can pretty much calculate how long it will be before you have to carry your kids away and abandon your home and your life as you know it.
-
My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15.
-
Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
-
This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
-
I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.
-
There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.
