D. L. Hughley Quotes
They didn't have to describe Jesus to me for me to know he's black. Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine at a wedding. Now if that ain't black folk, I don't know what is.
Quotes to Explore
-
Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
-
I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
-
I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
-
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
-
I am not in the business of suppressing books.
-
I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
-
The darkness of clubs makes me feel much more secure, and you can hide behind smoke and lights.
-
The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
-
I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
-
There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
-
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
-
Politics is not an exact science.
-
In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.
-
The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
-
Christianity is a battle not a dream.
-
The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
-
I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
-
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
-
Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.
-
I like black a lot because I can't really see colors - so I wear a lot of dark-colored clothes. You've got to be aware of what you're wearing because you might become that.
-
'Drag Race' has become a staple of modern television for the way it skewers expectations and attitudes about gender, much as a show like 'black-ish' works to challenge stereotypes about black families in America.
-
Trust God for the impossible-miracles are His department. Our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest.
-
Alan Greenspan is going to go down in history as one of the worst Federal Reserve chairmen ever.
-
They didn't have to describe Jesus to me for me to know he's black. Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine at a wedding. Now if that ain't black folk, I don't know what is.
