There are many people still ashamed of their roots because of the negative connotations that come with being an 'African.' That sentiment… — Malachi Kirby Copy Share Image
If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
I got southern roots from Texas all the way to Louisiana, went to Grambling State back in the day, my whole career… — E-40 Copy Share Image
The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal… — Peter Selgin Copy Share Image
This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
The things that are considered to be respectable have their roots in unrespectable things. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, "I am the watcher, I am not sadness,"… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
To rid the grass of weed, to get The whole root, Thick, tangled, takes a strong mind And desire - to make… — Lucien Stryk Copy Share Image
“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God. — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Trees endure the hot sun and rainstorms by sending their roots down deeper. The adversity they face is eventually the source of… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I am in favor of [actions] that have authenticity, roots, originality, verve, balance, taste, communicativeness, challenge, relevance to their time-in short, things… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The antidote to the malaise and distrust that led to the rise of Trump is total civic engagement: working together from the… — Michelle Wu Copy Share Image