Karen Lord famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.
-- Karen Lord

#Thinking #Stories #Messages
I find that sometimes if you just sit still, things have a way of finding you before you can find them.
-- Karen Lord

#Way #Sometimes #Stills
All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.
-- Karen Lord

#Stories #Tales #Life Story
Names are very important for humans, aren't they? How do I translate for you the name of this town as it seems to me, the true name that tells of its history and people and lands and weather and . . . everything?
-- Karen Lord

#Land #Names #Weather
Remember your ancestors, dream of your descendants and work hard while you're living.
-- Karen Lord

#Dream #Hard Work #Remember
In the beginning, God created human beings, which is to say God put the ingredients together, embedded the instructions for building on the template, and put it all into four separate eggs marked 'Some Assembly Required.'
-- Karen Lord

#Eggs #Together #Four
A little story is supported by a lot of untold backstory. What they get is more than what they see.
-- Karen Lord

#Stories #Littles

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!
I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
A good message will always find a messenger.
The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also profit from it, so you should also take your share in the burden. That's Secretary Gates's message. I share that message.

Karen Lord famous quotes

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