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“Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.”
Source : "The Awakening of Global Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Realization". Book by Jawara D. King, p. 20, 2010.
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“It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.”
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“As I've gotten older, my mannerisms are more and more like my mom's. Also, she was an educator - she's extremely passionate about education and children. I guess I inherited that in some way.”
Source : "Jenna Bush: 'I'm living my dream job'". TODAY Interview, www.today.com. April 22, 2008. 
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“I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?”
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“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
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“MAKE STATEMENTS also applies to us women: Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, “I’m going to be your surgeon? I’m here to talk to you about your procedure? I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?†Make statements, with your actions and your voice.”
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“Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.”
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“The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.”
Source : Anne Truitt (1996). “PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist”, Scribner
