Thought Provoking Black Quotes

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away. ~ Ruth Ozeki

I had always been an atheist until I met Lenny. He was too wonderously complex and good for there to be no benevolent and intelligent force behind our marvelous cosmos. Lenny gave me the actual proof my fiercely skeptical mind had always demanded. Not some logical, 37-step proof of God's existence. It was a personal proof. And it was irrefutable. ~ Zack Love

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In order for one to be converted to the 'dark' side he/she must have a complete understanding of the 'light' side With it's understanding we all would want to defy, overpower, or destroy what it is capable of. ~ Anonymous

But we live in a karaoke society... Many people feel they have to dance to someone else's tune, to sing someone else's song. ~ Francis Dewar

Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter. ~ Steve Pavlina

I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs. ~ Thomas Keller

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

I don't understand," Belle cried. "I gave you gold. You only gave me grief. ~ William H. Hooks

Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far. ~ Max McKeown

If your strengths don't, then your weakness's will soon define you. ~ Sachin Kumar Puli

Sometimes we choose the road we follow.
And sometimes the road chooses us. ~ Richie Singh

Big egos usually overlook genius! ~ Joe Buberger

If you close your eyes, you get to control your own darkness. ~ Melina Marchetta

Give us everything we ask for and suddenly it's too much. ~ Mark Lawrence

We can fly!
"We can become butterflies!
"There's nothing at the top
and it doesn't matter!"
As he heard his own
message he realized how
he had misread the instinct
to get high.
To get to the "top" he
must fly, not climb. ~ Trina Paulus

Her thoughts were like the moon eclipsing the sun. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

Keys parachuted down into one of the exact seats he purchased that he and his father sat in as season ticket holders in the Old Barn on Grand River Avenue. Keys slipped his arm around the empty chair dressed with his father's withering Tiger's baseball cap, secured to the seat with a quarter inch drywall screw. Keys reflected upon his father, who chauffeured Keys and other players, every weekend, to a hockey tournament somewhere, "You know pop…every kid you gave a ride too game or practice, came to your funeral. When this hat falls away, no more screws, pop. I'm gonna branch out…make new friends. Soon as these gypsy moths get a hold of your precious, Old English "D", here--turn your glory years, Kaline and Mclain into tree threads. ~ Kevin Moccia

There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we do not. Instead, we are forced to survive, to bear witness. ~ Noah Hawley

Madeleine in her turn stared at him steadily, straight into his eyes, in a profound, strange way, as if seeking to read something there, as if seeking to discover there that hidden part of a human being which can never be fathomed but may perhaps be glimpsed for a fleeting instant, in those moments of unguardedness or surrender or inattention, that are like doors left ajar onto the mysterious depths of the spirit ... they stood for a few seconds, each gazing into the other's eyes, each striving to reach the impenetrable secret of the other's heart, to probe each other's thoughts to the quick. They tried, in a mute and passionate questioning, to see the other's conscience in its essential truth: the intimate struggles of two beings who, living side by side, never really know one another, who suspect and sniff around and spy on one another, but cannot plumb the miry depths of one another's soul. ~ Guy De Maupassant

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets. ~ Spike Lee

Vision is also a fickle creature. You can see an object a hundred times, a thousand times, and it remains unchanged. Then in one swift second you realize it has been changing all along and your eyes hid it from you. ~ Cherie Priest

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right. ~ Albert Einstein

One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them. ~ Elie Wiesel

Regardless of others' reactions, do your best to stay true to yourself. Make the choices that allow you to look in the mirror and feel good about the person gazing back at you. ~ Steve Pavlina

We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting. ~ Julie Otsuka

I have been quiet today because fear in my heart has been fighting with frustration in my brain, leaving little energy for my mouth. ~ Camron Wright

I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things. ~ Michelle Monaghan

That's a lot of what the ghetto is, a reflection of poor self esteem ~ Michele McKnight Baker

Practice is the best of all instructors. ~ Publilius Syrus

When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you
have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw. ~ Jodi Picoult

No man however great is greater than his people ~ Chinua Achebe

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A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. ~ Norman Cousins

Yet people are still showing up to lift their hands after all these years even though the church is flawed and broken and beautiful and has a shameful, ugly side to it that I'll bet it wishes it didn't have and repeatedly tries to hide.
Just like me.
Just like you.
Just like always. ~ Max Andrew Dubinsky

Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future. ~ Lewis Mumford

Strategists seek to increase available options by manipulating structure and context, and in this way dictate the terms of conflict. One of the most captivating discussions of manipulating rules and boundaries to further the end of politics is in William Riker's thought-provoking conception of heresthetics. Riker produces more than a dozen examples of a master strategist's manipulation of perceptions, agendas, rules, and procedures to assure the strategist's desired results would ensue. The strategist does not seek a specific outcome or decision; instead the process of decision-making is altered to increase the likelihood that a desired decision will be made. In most cases, the strategist provides additional choices for the opponent, inducing the other side to make a decision that was not previously apparent, but now seems necessary. By increasing the choices of others, strategists increase their own power. ~ Everett C. Dolman

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off. ~ Spider Robinson

I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking. ~ Judy Dater

Love a thing at a time. Many things will love you no more. ~ Suyasha Subedi

Simply by living in this particular time and space, you're doing something nearly 100% of all other humans ever never could. Don't waste it. ~ Bill Loguidice

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. ~ Andrei Tarkovsky

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library. ~ Peter Singer

The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz

With wisdom comes responsibility. Somewhere along the way, I misplaced both. ~ I.E. Castellano