Banks Quotes
If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.
Don't chase the money... chase the passion. Because that's what is going to keep you happy and motivated and jumping out of that bed Monday morning.
I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.
Love every part of yourself. Even the things that frustrate you. They make you who you are!
Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in.
All feelings derive and become alive, whether negative or positive, from the power of Thought
To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.
When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.
Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?
Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that's positive and celebrate that!
Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.
You can have all the potential in world, but unless you have confidence, you have nothing.
I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.
I roll with Ladies just as tropic as the chronic in my pocket Cop it, Crush it, Roll it, Spark it, and mix it in with the chocolate
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.
Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.
I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.
Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.
Hotness to me is scary. I don't want to be hot. I just want to be a staple. I want to be something that's trusted.
People ask me how I stay thin, and I'm like, 'When you go to the grocery store, buy more bananas than cookies.'
You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less...the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet.
I live to hold communion With all that is divine, To feel there is a union Twixt Natures heart and mine.
People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.
Someone once said to me, 'Are you telling me that chair isn't real, that it's only thought?' I said 'Of course the chair is real. But it comes to you via Thought
A lot of young girls think that the opposite of fake is rudeness. And just as ugly as fake is, so is saying whatever is on your mind because it's the truth.
You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.
