Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.
-
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
-
The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.
-
I loved all of the 'Zenon' movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion. I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn't just wear that in real life because people would look weirdly at me, but maybe at a party or something.
-
Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.
-
Lauryn Hill is quite political and is very bold and isn't afraid of wearing her heart on her sleeve, and same with Bjork, except she is a little bit more kind of fragile.
-
My son is healthy and happy, so that's all that matters to me.
-
You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
-
The fire first has to be laid before the match can be put to it.
-
The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.
-
Here at home, we will strengthen our defenses but not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans, because great and proud nations don't hunker down and hide behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
-
In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.
-
Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one's belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
-
No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.
-
If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.
-
Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate
-
In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is.
