Haile Gerima Quotes

When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.

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• I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Dream

• It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Books
  • Responsible
  • Writers

• If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind.

  

  A. H. Almaas
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Experience

• Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Women
  • Shoes
  • Weakness

• People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.

  

  Haki R. Madhubuti
  • People
  • History
  • Future

• A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Up
  • Men
  • Long

• Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel.

  

  B. J. Porter
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet much, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • She
  • Father
  • Free

• You are positive, creative and happy to the degree to which you eliminate negative emotions from your life.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Positive

• Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Fun

• A true servant of Mary cannot be lost.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • True
  • Lost
  • Servant

• I take no credit at all. This is a talented team with a real desire to follow a specific style of play.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Real
  • Team
  • Desire

• I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Love
  • Way
  • Know

• Lifting her head, she joined in as the others in the group began to howl in response to Brace's triumph. The sound was . . . It touched the soul, the music haunting, starkly pure and yet so very earthy.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Music
  • She
  • Soul

• All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.

  

  William Randolph Hearst
  • Kind
  • Boys
  • Dull Jackasses

• God…is the center of all selves.

  

  Valentin Tomberg
  • God
  • Self

• One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Rich
  • Dignity
  • Owns

• When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.

  

  Haile Gerima
  • Doe
  • Devastated