Esther Rolle famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I told them [the producers] I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television.
-- Esther Rolle

#Children #Father #Lying
Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how they got to where they are.
-- Esther Rolle

#College #People #Grandparent
I admit that living in Nigeria sounds romantic, but Africa isn't America by a long shot. It's a different world and a different place in time...
-- Esther Rolle

#America #Long #Sound

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.
Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.
Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.
I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
She wouldn't come back. She hated me. She hated Nan. She hated my mom. She hated her father. She wouldn't come back here... but God, I wanted her to.
I love you Rush Finlay. You are going to be the best husband and father the world has ever known. One day our sonâ€™s wife will be thankful that her husband will have had you for a role model. Sheâ€™ll be lucky because of you. Because you will have raised our son to be the man that you are. Heâ€™ll love her completely because heâ€™ll know how.
Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.

Esther Rolle famous quotes

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