Barbara Neely famous quotes

"Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.
-- Barbara Neely

#Justice #Criminals #Were Meant To Be

For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look.
-- Barbara Neely

#Attitude #White #Black

[On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.
-- Barbara Neely

#Family #Air #Secret

No matter how old we get, life's always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you've learned ten times before.
-- Barbara Neely

#Lessons #Matter

I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.
-- Barbara Neely

#Bridges #People #Pay

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya.

Taking the state wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators, and beneficiaries from those of a professional criminal class.

atrophy of feeling creates criminals.

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.

When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when your activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful, when what you do serves both yourself and others, when you do not tire within but seek the sweet satisfaction of your life and your work, you are doing what you were meant to be doing.

You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

Every great teacher who has ever walked the planet has told you that life was meant to be abundant.

You may not always end up where you thought you were going, But you will always end up where you were meant to be.