George Floyd Poem Quotes

Spring irises bloom.
The caged bird no longer sings -
the knee on his throat. ~ Kamand Kojouri

If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and 'Python' achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans - George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant. Promoters saw that and liked it. ~ Michael Palin

Racism is all over the world but the justice is nowhere ~ Areena Nadeem

George Floyd's pleas awakened this world that has been rendered comatose by fear of contagion and all of a sudden nothing mattered but justice. ~ Aysha Taryam

It is not only my heart that is heavy-laden, but the hearts and minds of so many who have been burdened by the tragedies, bloodshed, and woes of our time. ~ Asa Don Brown

President Trump's response to police violence was to encourage more police violence. ~ Steven Magee

George Floyd's death may have compelled you to post a black image on your social-media accounts but what it should really have done is made you question yourself and find within you those dark places where intolerance might be hiding for who among us can stand tall and proclaim that they have never been prejudiced towards a certain ethnicity, gender, colour or faith? ~ Aysha Taryam

Ignorance does not make you fireproof when the world is burning. ~ Nelou Keramati

We all think we've got one more boxing match in us, and that, probably, will be the downfall of Floyd Mayweather, George Foreman, Manny Pacquiao. We'll overstay our welcome. ~ George Foreman

BLACK ISN'T JUST A HUE IT'S A HUEMAN ~ Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

Each poem holds the voice of a moment.
Held within, they are contained, damned to silence;
released, they fly into the world to find a new heart and a new home within,
where they will speak again. ~ Noa Daniels

Our willingness to be used as God's vessels can make His Father-heart a reality to our hurting world. ~ Floyd McClung

I'm tired. I'm going back to bed. ~ George Reeves

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. ~ George Eliot

What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs? ~ George R R Martin

All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups. ~ George Zebrowski

... love couldn't stop a woman from wishing to string up her husband because he was a serious pain in the neck. ~ Nina George

My dear friend, If you've spent time with me, don't be surprised when I tell you this darkness within me comes from you. ~ Anangsha Alammyan

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. ~ George Eliot

When people realize you're not the stuffed shirt they think you are it's such a relief and you have people who really like to be around you. ~ George Hamilton

Irabu is a fat, pus-y toad. ~ George Steinbrenner

We know the surface temperature of the Earth is warming. It has risen by .6 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. There was a warming trend from the 1890s to the 1940s, cooling from the 1940s to the 1970s, and then sharply rising temperatures from the 1970s to today. ~ George W. Bush

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted? ~ George Carlin

I was stressed and scared and I had to hurry to be someone, become something, do something. I was running and talking and cursed myself when I wasted my time on things that wouldn't get me anywhere. It was work and it was money and I was never where I was, always somewhere else in my head far, far away. ~ Charlotte Eriksson

This Flower That Eats Me"

Every poem
sounds the same after a while.
A gentle urge for you to understand
without anybody forcing you to.
Every poem is saying
I love you
I love you, I love you, I love you.
Even when it only says
This flower has bloomed,
this sharp, red flower.
This flower that eats me. ~ Emery Allen

I was in the darkness," he began, quoting the poem. "I could not see my words Nor the wishes of my heart. Then suddenly there was a great light - " He stopped at the stanza break, grinning at Thomas for effect. "'Let me into the darkness again.' That's what we do, you know. We stumble around until we get what we want, and then once we see exactly what it was we really wanted we're terrified of it. ~ Kate Corcino

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I don't know what happened. One minute, I was dreamin' about a fat piece of George Clooney and a hot date with some brown sugar pound cake, and the next thing I knew, the house was coming down on us. ~ Kami Garcia

That evening Squealer explained privately to the other animals that Napoleon had never in reality been opposed to the windmill. On the contrary, it was he who had advocated it in the beginning, and the plan which Snowball had drawn on the floor of the incubator shed had actually been stolen from among Napoleon's papers. The windmill was, in fact, Napoleon's own creation. Why, then, asked somebody, had he spoken so strongly against it? Here Squealer looked very sly. That, he said, was Comrade Napoleon's cunning. He had seemed to oppose the windmill, simply as a manoeuvre to get rid of Snowball, who was a dangerous character and a bad influence. ~ George Orwell

All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens. ~ George Orwell

What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms of individual success, with hardly any consciousness that the community exists. ~ George Orwell

Then let us be of one heart too, Dawtie!"
She was so accustomed to hear Andrew speak in figures, that sometimes she looked through and beyond his words. She did so now, and seeing nothing, stood perplexed.
"Willna ye, Dawtie?" said Andrew, holding out his hands.
"I dinna freely understand ye, An'rew!"
"Ye heavenly idiot!" cried Andrew. "Will ye be my wife, or will you no? ~ George MacDonald

Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it
~ Franz Wright

I'm the one who will not raise taxes. My opponent now says he'll raise them as a last resort, or a third resort. But when a politician talks like that, you know that's one resort he'll be checking into. My opponent, my opponent won't rule out raising taxes. But I will. And The Congress will push me to raise taxes and I'll say no. And they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again, and I'll say, to them, Read my lips: no new taxes. ~ George H. W. Bush

Waight and measure take away strife. ~ George Herbert

Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish communicate by sound. And a North Atlantic right whale can transmit across hundreds of miles. ~ Rose George