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“We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.”
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“There are many important books on oral history. My book was the launch title in the Understanding Qualitative Research series with Oxford University Press. I think what makes my book and all of the series books unique is the emphasis on writing instruction for researchers who want to use the method being described.”
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“I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.”
Source : 1978 Address to Black Writers Conference, Howard University. Collected as 'Where Is the Love?' in Moving Towards Home (1989).
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“I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I've kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. There's nothing wrong with settling, it's definitely an easier life than the one I've chosen to live.”
Source : "FacebookTwitterGoogleEmailCopy Aubrey O’Day: ‘Last night I was stolen by a hawk’". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. October 22, 2009. 
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“Inspiration without action is really entertainment. So while something can be very inspiring it is not transformative until you actually do something with it.”
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“The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.”
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“After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!”
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“If you reach deeply into yourself, you are reaching into the very essence of mankind.”
Source : Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.80, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
