Ossie Davis Quotes

Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from us forever.... Many will ask what Harlem finds to honor in this stormy, controversial and bold young captain - and we will smile. ...We will answer and say unto them, ‘Did you ever talk to Brother Malcolm? Did you ever really listen to him? ...For if you did you would know him. And if you knew him you would know why we must honor him.'

Ossie Davis

• Farewell
• Harlem
• Bid

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Sports
  • Training
  • Puppies

• I saw 'Hamilton' when it was at the Public, and I just wept profusely in my seat because this is a form I love deeply, and to watch it be reinvented in such a genius, gifted way and executed by such a brilliant company of human beings, I was overwhelmed with not just appreciation for the piece of work itself but for the possibility.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Love
  • Appreciation

• There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Nothing
  • Old

• 'She means well,' said Mr Jarndyce, hastily. 'The wind’s in the east.' 'It was in the north, sir, as we came down,' observed Richard. 'My dear Rick,' said Mr Jarndyce, poking the fire, 'I’ll take an oath it’s either in the east, or going to be. I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.'

  

  Charles Dickens
  • She
  • Fire
  • Wind

• The national Log Cabin Republicans are ridiculous. They’re not conservative at all. I don’t even think they’re gay - they’re bi (partisan). GOProud is comprised of real conservatives who happen to be gay. (Same with the Texas LCRs, for whom I’ve been signing books for years.)

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Real
  • Gay
  • Texas

• Nothing compares to being in a room full of politicians screaming abuse at each other all night. It's hilarious but also a bit terrifying.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Night
  • Abuse
  • Hilarious

• We are video consumers first and foremost, and we hate anything appearing in the videos that isn't organic.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Hate

• You don't love hockey for the scores, you love hockey for the fights, right?

  

  DeAngelo Williams
  • Hockey

• If you are an atheist as I am, Shakespeare can be your ideal. Everything is within Shakespeare, especially in his 10 greatest plays. They have life, meaning, understanding, the whole lot.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Atheist

• It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.

  

  Pete Maravich
  • Father

• One of my rules for investing is, I don't invest in a deal where I don't think I have an unfair advantage and where I don't think I can personally impact the outcome.

  

  Chris Sacca

• That's why the have the programmes presented by 45 guys; 'Hi I'm Ted, I'm Bob, I'm Ralph, I'm Dick, I'm Dale, I'm Nick, I'm Will', and they keep changing all the angles of the camera. 'I'm over here, I'm at this desk, I'm standing here' and Wendy comes up from under the desk with the financial weather.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • Up
  • Why
  • Financial

• 'T is sweet, as year by year we loseFriends out of sight, in faith to museHow grows in Paradise our store.

  

  John Keble
  • Faith
  • Sweet
  • Paradise

• Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Art
  • Technique
  • Characterless

• Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • People
  • Rest
  • Powerful

• The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Reality
  • Law
  • Universe

• We need to be smarter. We are very ignorant about things that go on in our solar system.

  

  John Young
  • Ignorant
  • Solar

• We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

  

  Eric Hoffer

• Misandry – or man hating – is the equivalent of misogyny. If you are unaware of misandry, welcome to the club.

  

  Warren Farrell

• It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Going
  • Farewell
  • Any

• It is charming the way everyone in the South says, 'Come back.' This is the regulation farewell at gas stations, soda fountains, general stores, tourist camps. 'Come back,' they call, 'come back.' Do they feel marooned in one place, lost, needing to believe someone will return to share their exile on the similar main streets, in the varied but always new-looking land?

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Believe
  • Lost
  • Share

• Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Sweet
  • Spring
  • Flower

• Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from us forever.... Many will ask what Harlem finds to honor in this stormy, controversial and bold young captain - and we will smile. ...We will answer and say unto them, ‘Did you ever talk to Brother Malcolm? Did you ever really listen to him? ...For if you did you would know him. And if you knew him you would know why we must honor him.'

  

  Ossie Davis
  • Farewell
  • Harlem
  • Bid