World Quotes

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

While my life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist. And for me, they must.

This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.

As far as creation goes, you just really have to not overthink and just create and be confident. If you think it’s tight, then the world is going to think it’s tight.

She doesn’t understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.