Claude McKay Quotes

I know the dark delight of being strange,The penalty of difference in the crowd,The loneliness of wisdom among fools

Claude McKay

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• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Great
  • Black

• Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • America
  • Present
  • Dark

• When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Think
  • Learning
  • Continue

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• If I wasn't an actress, I'd never wear make up. I liked being ready in half an hour and arrive on the sets. Even for a no-makeup look, if one has a dark under-eye on a particular day, a little makeup is used. I had no scope for that as well.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Up
  • Day
  • Dark

• I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Light

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Light
  • Evil
  • Dark

• That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Time
  • Dark
  • Personality

• In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Night

• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Wisdom
  • Patience

• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Done
  • Want
  • Wisdom

• One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it's raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when it rains.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Love
  • Dark
  • English

• I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff writer at 'Memphis' magazine - focused on race relations.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Work
  • Job
  • History

• Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

  

  O. Henry
  • Up
  • Home
  • Funny

• No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • Party
  • Wisdom

• I am attracted to the dark side of life!

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Life
  • Dark
  • Side

• Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Think
  • Dark
  • Explore

• Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Good
  • Light
  • Change

• Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history. Finally, a few trips to the library, and we have a pretty good sense of what all the masters said. They all said the same things. There is a mass discovery that Jesus is truth, the Torah is truth, Mohammed is truth, Krishna is truth, Buddha is truth, and so on. They are all truth and they are all among us now.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Good
  • Truth

• ...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Know
  • Realize
  • Loneliness

• We need to develop clean, affordable, and reliable energy sources, and frankly, we need to license that technology to the rest of the world.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • World
  • Energy
  • Technology

• AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • People
  • God
  • Father

• I know the dark delight of being strange,The penalty of difference in the crowd,The loneliness of wisdom among fools

  

  Claude McKay
  • Wisdom
  • Dark