To a kindergartener whose hands seem to search out, touch, move and poke everything. This time he pressed a button on the PA system mic and was breathing heavy (a la Dark Vader) to the whole school:
Tag Archives: Quotes
Quote: “Parted from me yet never parted.”
Reality is never knowing you
Even as my spirit calls you home
Though we’ve only ever shared shy fleeting touches, my body
Flushes with memory of joys
Yet to come.
How can there be certainty of a future while languishing on a broken path?
MLK Memorial Quotes
The opening of the The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC was a big event for me. I had been looking forward to it for years and truly tried to score tickets to any grand opening event. It opened in its state of the art designer building in September 2016.ContinueContinue reading “MLK Memorial Quotes”
Quote: When will I know?
Miles Morales: When will I know I’m ready? Peter B. Parker: You won’t. It’s a leap of faith. Thats all it is, Miles. It’s a leap of faith. Later…. Peter B. Parker: How do I know I won’t screw up again? Myles Morales: You don’t. It’s… Peter B. Parker: I know… a leap of faith.ContinueContinue reading “Quote: When will I know?”
Jane Fonda in Five Acts: Quotes from the HBO Documentary
None of my marriages were democratic, because I was too worried about pleasing. I had to be a certain way in order for them to love me. I had to look a certain way. And I looked different for all of them. I wanted to be living as a whole Jane. A fully realized Jane.
Quote: One Strike Left…
‘You’ve got two strikes against you: You’re a woman and you’re a Negro.’
Yeah, but…
Quote: All mortals are equal…
Les mortels sont égaux; ce n’est pas la naissance, C’est la seule vertu qui fait la différence. All mortals are equal; it is not their birth, But virtue itself that makes the difference. Voltaire, Eriphile, act II, scene I (1732); these lines were also used in Mahomet, act I, scene IV (1741)
Quote: Man is free…
L’homme est libre au moment qu’il veut l’être. Man is free at the instant he wants to be. Voltaire, Brutus, act II, scene I (1730)
Quote: Dangerous to be right…
Il est dangereux d’avoir raison dans des choses où des hommes accrédités ont tort. It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. or It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. ~ Voltaire, Le Siècle de Louis XIV (1752)
Quote: If you want good laws…
Voulez-vous avoir de bonnes lois; brûlez les vôtres, et faites-en de nouvelles. If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones. ~ Voltaire, Laws (1765)
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