Ella Baker Quotes

There is also the danger in our culture that because a person is called upon to give public statements and is acclaimed by the establishment, such a person gets to the point of believing that he is the movement. ~ Ella Baker

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind. ~ Ella Baker

In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been. ~ Ella Baker

There are heroes and, emphatically, heroines enough in this history. Yielding to the temptation to focus on their courage, however, may miss the point. Part of the legacy of people like Ella Baker and Septima Clark is a faith that ordinary people who learn to believe in themselves are capable of extraordinary acts, or better, of acts that seem extraordinary to us precisely because we have such an impoverished sense of the capabilities of ordinary people. ~ Charles M. Payne

In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed ... It means facing a system that does not lend its self to your needs and devising means by which you change that system. ~ Ella Baker

We who believe in freedom cannot rest. ~ Ella Baker

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going. ~ Ella Baker

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules. ~ Ella Baker

I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight. ~ Ella Baker

All talks about legacies of white supremacy must be tied to empowering the lives of poor and working people as a whole. The black agenda - from Frederick Douglas to A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr, Fannie Lou Hammer to Ella Baker - has always been tied to race talk inseparable from expanding possibilities of democracy, expanding empowerment of everyday people. ~ Cornel West

Strong people don't need strong leaders. ~ Ella Baker

The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be used if they understood what was happening and how group action could counter violence. ~ Ella Baker

I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others. ~ Ella Baker

[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership ... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement. ~ Gail Collins

Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it. ~ Ella Baker

Strong people do not need strong leaders. ~ Ella Baker

I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work. ~ Johnny Mathis

There is no one story that will replace the American dream, but stories
like this one - and there are thousands - can inform the myth or myths
we create for building and preserving the next culture. In order to do so,
however, we must recognize that we cannot live without myth, for it is an
essential part of our humanity. If we attempt to do so - given the fact that
something in us needs myth - we
will only create more myths that echo
the American dream - with themes of heroism, greed, entitlement, narcissism,
exploitation, exceptionalism, and myriad abuses of power. How we prepare for and navigate collapse will provide the raw materials for the myths we make and will live by in a postindustrial world. ~ Carolyn Baker

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The only currency that will heal every culture is ceaseless love. To be a minister, we must walk like Jesus, talk like Jesus, and be like Jesus for a broken and dying world. ~ Heidi Baker

One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it? ~ Tom Baker

I think about another type of revenge -the quieter, less explosive kind I could inflict just by living my life in spite of him. ~ Ella Berman

I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'. ~ Arthur Baker

Patience of a saint. The mind of a sinner. ~ Ella Frank

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars. ~ Russell Baker

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely. ~ Josephine Baker

My name's Asher," he rumbled in that deep voice and she realized she'd been blatantly staring.
"I'm Ella." And she wasn't going anywhere, she realized. Not until she got a taste of this sexy male. Something told her one taste wouldn't be nearly enough. ~ Savannah Stuart

There's a lot less time in the day when you're in a relationship. ~ Ella Eyre

The wisest words come out of the most damaged mouths. ~ Matt Baker

The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know. ~ Tom Baker

Most of us would give anything for the chance to play just one day of MLB baseball - especially for our favorite team. Well, there once was a pitcher named Bock Baker who actually got two opportunities to pitch in the big leagues. He took the mound for Cleveland against the Chicago White Sox in his big league debut. How did he fare? Well, he pitched a complete game. Pretty spectacular, right? Well, sure - but it depends on your perspective. He gave up 23 hits and 13 runs. Baker never pitched for Cleveland again, but the Philadelphia Athletics gave him a second big league start that same year (1901). He lasted juts six innings, and lost again after giving up 11 runs - and then his career was over. ~ Tucker Elliot

There is a haunting phantom called Regret, A shadowy creature robed somewhat like woe, But fairer in the face, whom all men know By her said mien, and eyes forever wet. No heart would seek her; but once having met All take her by the hand, and to and fro They wander through those paths of long ago
Those hallowed ways 'twere wiser to forget. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I also like that."

"What?" Logan exhaled.

"How much you want me. It's a fucking rush. The way you watch me, and look at me is so shameless. ~ Ella Frank

Why try to have pigs fly
When ducks already can ~ Ella C.

If you think fate is fickle, try tempting it ~ S. Spencer Baker

Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise. ~ Ella Maillart

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. ~ Ray Stannard Baker

You know, Ella, you're not the first woman who's ever been in this shower with me
"
"I'm shocked." I leaned back against him as he soaped my back.
"
but you're for damn sure the first one who's ever worried about wasting water."
"How much, would you say?"
"Ten gallons per minute, give or take."
"Oh my God. Hurry.We can't stay in here long. We'll throw the entire ecological system out of balance. ~ Lisa Kleypas

This whole Psalm offers itself to be drawn into these two opposite propositions: a godly man is blessed, a wicked man is miserable; which seem to stand as two challenges, made by the prophet: one, that he will maintain a godly man against all comers, to be the only Jason for winning the golden fleece of blessedness; the other, that albeit the ungodly make a show in the world of being happy, yet they of all men are most miserable. - Sir Richard Baker, 1640 ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There was the moment-the moment I went back there for. That was the moment I knew that this man was going to change my life forever. Suddenly, I found myself wanting to change his. ~ Ella Frank

She looked at me, and she saw something no one else did. Even I don't know what." -Landon ~ Ella James

When I start a new novel and find myself diverted by domestic activities, many of which I genuinely enjoy, I panic that I will never write another word. ~ Christina Baker Kline

People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that. ~ Mary Baker Eddy

I think I would fan over Beyonce or Adele. Those are my two girl idols, definitely. ~ Ella Henderson

President Bush said yesterday that it was appropriate for the White House to invoke Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's religion in making the case for her to skeptical conservatives, triggering a debate over what role, if any, her evangelical faith should play in the confirmation battle. ~ Peter Baker

I love hiking to the top of mountains in L.A. and seeing incredible landscapes. It really inspires me. ~ Ella Henderson

If you think by staying away from me you're keeping me safe, you're wrong, pussycat. If being with you means physical death, then I welcome it because I'm dead inside without you, ~ Ella Dominguez

I love you," he writes again and again. "I can't bear to live without you. I'm counting the minutes until I see you." The words he uses are the idioms of popular songs and poems in the newspaper. And mine to him are no less cliched. I puzzle over the onionskin, trying to spill my heart onto the page. But I can only come up with the same words, in the same order, and hope the depth of feeling beneath them gives them weight and substance. I love you. I miss you. Be careful. Be safe. ~ Christina Baker Kline

I reached this one, said my friend, by sitting upon five pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if we drive to Baker-street we shall just be in time for breakfast. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'. ~ Tom Baker

Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and they won't coalesce ever again. ~ Nicholson Baker

Batter up! I want to play with some balls. ~ Ella Frank

From soul to soul, and heart to heart. May you be blessed, I wish to impart. ~ Tom Baker

I love you, Ella May," I whisper, kissing her cheek. "And one day I want to be doing this exact same thing at our wedding. ~ Jessica Sorensen

I like working with kids. I just have a way with kids. ~ Stephen Baker