A.Z. Black Quotes

…there is not a day of my life that I am not critiquing myself to see if my politics are borne out in the way that I live and the way that I talk and present myself.

In politics all abstract terms conceal treachery.

It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can't.

Straight women love a feminine sensibility in a man, but that love only goes up to, and unfortunately does not quite pass, the fact of his being an actual woman.

…move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.

There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything's already turning into something else!

For twelve school years, every morning, she had turned left out the front door to get to work. Now the taxi turned right, spiriting her off in the opposite direction.

They wore their strange beauty like war paint.

Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you.

A woman is only as beautiful as she believes she is, if she can't convince herself, no one else can.

Beautiful girls, are a bit like been there, done that. Once you have had one, the mystery is gone.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death - Walt Whitman

We ache with the yearningthat turns half into wholeand offer no excusesfor the beauty of our souls.

We share the gospel with others because we believe the gospel is not just about heaven, but about having life even here on earth.

Sacrifice everything that is yours, to call up the humans in others.

Arise O lion-heart! Awake, O great soldier! Misery has come upon the world. It is wailing for help. It is wailing for redemption. Won’t you do anything, my friend!

If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.

I'm the boss. I gotta pretend to worry.

You draw characters speaking loud and clear but you’re not hearing them.

It just feels like meeting him again was like seeing a blank paper ready to be sketched, a different idea to be drawn.

Every second in the air in Paris is art.

Just a beginner, but he learned so fast. Everything came so damn easy to him. Not true. The hard things cam easy. But the easy things he found impossibly hard.

Every book is a journey, a map into the complexities of the human mind and soul.

Depression is like being under house arrest, only there is no house.

We cannot shake off three hundred years of fear in three hours.

Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it.

The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character.

You may be James the American, or Mary the British, or anything else, but before all that, you are a human.

Only fools neglect the living God – the Human Self, while running after imaginary shadows.

Loneliness was an inseparable part of being human.

We shouldn't be seeking the respect of an unjust system that will not respect us on the basis of our humanity alone.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which... is within the souls of men.

Sometimes the greatest pain, is the one we think we can’t control.

There are often two conversations going on in a marriage. The one that you’re having and the one you’re not.

...And no prenup. Prenups are for people who plan on getting a divorce. I have so much, Bernie. But I've never had anyone to share it with. From now on, what's mine is yours

Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don't.

The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of whispered tones and sighing harmonies that held him in its force like the earth [holding] the moon.

Only whispers can tell of the sweet dreams we knew so well. I'll see you around our dear ocean town.

When someone doesn't want to change then there is nothing you can do to change them. And, when someone wants to change there is nothing you can do to stop them.

This is called ‘Black Box’, for the girl who holds the key to mine.

IN the book of my heart, pages keep falling out, many of them marked "Mom and Dad.

How do YOU know what God meant? Did he whisper into your ear? Did he put the knife in your heart? Did he put a gun in your hand?

The moment you betray your heart is the moment you lose everything.

Anyone who offers their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.

And so shall honor Morgant, " Gwydion said, "for what he used to be, and Ellidyr Prince of Pen-Llarcau for what he became.

You've never had wok-seared spicy broccoli until you've had takeout trans-temporal wok-seared spicy broccoli delivered by a copy of yourself.

Long has black powder been in the hands of dwarves alone. Alas, winds ever change and nothing remains the same forever.Lord Arrlo Salkeld

If you begin to rely upon yourself and become arrogant in your skill, that is the day you will fall.

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile.

You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.