A Igoni Barrett Quotes

No one asks to be born, to be black or white or any color in between and yet the identity a person is born into becomes the hardest to explain to the world ~ A. Igoni Barrett

[...]No human being has ever directly seen their own face. It's impossible within nature - the most you can do is glimpse your nose and, for those with full lips, the curve of you upper lip. And so we only see ourselves through external sources, whether as images in mirrors, pixels on the screen, or words on the page, words of love from a mother, words of hate from an ex-lover.
Long before Furo's story became my own, I was already trying to say what I see now, that we are all constructed narratives. ~ A. Igoni Barrett

Dreams can lose their way and turn up on the wrong side of sleep. ~ A. Igoni Barrett

And he learnt how it felt to be seen as a freak: exposed to wonder, invisible to comprehension. About ~ A. Igoni Barrett

A White man in Lagos has no voice louder than the dollar sign branded onto his forehead ~ A. Igoni Barrett

On this island of existence, the survivor is the man who understands he is trapped. ~ A. Igoni Barrett

My say is this: when you live in a worldwide bullring, bullshit is what you'll get. If they say I cannot be my mother's son, then it must be that I'm her daughter. ~ A. Igoni Barrett

Womanhood comes with its peculiar burdens, among them the constant reminder of a subordinate status whose dominant symptom was uninvited sexual attention from men ~ A. Igoni Barrett

It is easier to be than to become. ~ A. Igoni Barrett

Lagos was built from blood and sweat, and raw ambition. Abuja was designed as a playground for the rich. ~ A. Igoni Barrett

But love does not mean marriage, a baby, forever. Love means you make me happy until you don't. ~ A. Igoni Barrett

You're like a gem shining ever brightly in an ever dimming world. ~ Zechariah Barrett

The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin. ~ Tom Barrett

For none can express thee, though all should approve thee.
I love thee so, Dear, that I only can love thee. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back and just win some Tony Awards. ~ Barrett Foa

That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, ... I like such ivy; bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus; pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre. ~ Majel Barrett

But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

As you consciously choose to give yourself the gifts of self-care, they become an integral part of your rhythm and the vital tools that you will tap into for the rest of your life. ~ Miranda J. Barrett

Mechanism as a philosophic doctrine might be defined as the belief that the last machine which human ingenuity has created gives us the final form of reality. ~ William Barrett

O Earth, so full of dreary noises!
O men, with wailing in your voices!
O delved gold, the wader's heap!
O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall!
God makes a silence through you all,
And giveth His beloved, sleep. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Unless you can feel when the song is done
No other is sweet in its rhythm;
Unless you can feel when left by one
That all men else go with him. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way. ~ Syd Barrett

Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from. ~ Jacinda Barrett

A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century. ~ Peter Barrett

So I'm very grateful for everything that has happened in my life. ~ Alice Barrett

He lives most life whoever breathes most air. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me, I know, and not the books - in a way that some people aren't. Alive as teachers, alive as minds, alive as imaginative triggers. ~ Andrea Barrett

Someone told me once, that he who talks to himself is conversing with a fool. I suppose there's truth in that. ~ Neal Barrett Jr.

To be successful one must be willing to learn and apply new concepts and not be afraid of change. ~ Craig R. Barrett

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I am not their f*****g entertainment. And I am not a f*****g hero! Given the choice, a hero would do exactly the same again. I wouldn't. Okay? ~ Andrew Barrett

The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It is not always about what you eat and drink. Rather it can be about what you are not eating and drinking, for which the body is desperately craving! ~ Miranda J. Barrett

So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew. ~ Majel Barrett

I think of thee!-my thoughts do twine and bud
About thee, as wild vines, about a tree ...
Yet, O my palm-tree, be it understood
I will not have my thoughts instead of thee
Who art dearer, better! ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I feel an obligation toward God to be as honest as I can. I'm human, sir, and I'll admit the Truth can be painful at times, and even a little elusive, but... as best as I can, I must speak the Truth and address things as they are. I don't feel I have any right to take the Truth and cut it up, rearrange it, select what I want and delete what I want just so it'll align with my politics or my Accounting Department." - John Barrett Jr. ~ Frank E. Peretti

Two human loves make one divine. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

This world you think you know? It's hidden ... in shards of reality. ~ Zechariah Barrett

While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice. ~ Gresham Barrett

XI
I sang his name instead of song;
Over and over I sang his name:
Backward and forward I sang it along,
With my sweetest notes, it was still the same!
I sang it low, that the slave-girls near
Might never guess, from what they could hear,
That all the song was a name. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

As Elizabeth Barrett Browning once observed poetically: "Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God. ~ Anita Moorjani