Vernetta Norman > Vernetta's Quotes

“Get Ready, Get Ready!”
― Bishop T.D.Jakes

“Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!”
― Ogden Nash, Collected Verse from 1929 On

“...Hattie wanted to give her babies names that weren't already chiseled on a headstone in the family plots in Georgia, so she gave them names of promise and of hope, reaching-forward names, not looking-back ones.”
― Ayana Mathis, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

“Black Poetry is not for Black People…it is for everybody”
― Nikki Giovanni

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“There's always some further action to take.”
― Pierre Boulle

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Elizabeth Appell

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“My greatest fear is having to face God and explain to Him why I wasn't able to fulfill my purpose.”
― Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

“A roll of the dice will never abolish chance.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey