Barbara Smith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
-- Barbara Smith

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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
-- Barbara Smith

#Feminist #Black #Feminism
A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
-- Barbara Smith

#Color #White #People
Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
-- Barbara Smith

#Unique #Black #Important

Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
Love shouldn't make our choices for us; it should just add importance to our choices.
The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by which He has brought His creatures into existence and are the cause of that bringing into existence. He who knows that he possesses neither being nor act rediscovers himself in that original state of pleasure and divine love.
Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
For me faith is the foundation and support of one's life.
I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.

Barbara Smith famous quotes

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