Clergyman's

And I say to you this morning in conclusion that I'm not going to put my ultimate faith in things. I'm not going to put my ultimate faith in gadgets and contrivances. As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow, but to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Not in the little gods that can be with us in a few moments of prosperity, but in the God who walks with us through the valley of the shadow of death, and causes us to fear no evil. That's the God. Not in the god that can give us a few Cadillac cars and Buick convertibles, as nice as they are, that are in style today and out of style three years from now, but the God who threw up the stars to bedeck the heavens like swinging lanterns of eternity. Not in the god that can throw up a few skyscraping buildings, but the God who threw up the gigantic mountains, kissing the sky, as if to bathe their peaks in the lofty blues. Not in the god that can give us a few televisions and radios, but the God who threw up that great cosmic light that gets up early in the morning in the eastern horizon, (who paints its technicolor across the blue — something that man could never make. I'm not going to put my ultimate faith in the little gods that can be destroyed in an atomic age, but the God who has been our help in ages past, and our hope for years to come, and our shelter in the time of storm, and our eternal home. That's the God that I'm putting my ultimate faith in.
- "Martin Luther King, Jr."

This is a book about the role of slavery and the slave trade in the events leading up to 4 July 1776 in igniting the rebellion that led to the founding of the United States of America. ... It is a story that does not see the founding of the U.S.A. as inevitable—or even a positive development: for Africans most particularly.
- Gerald Horne

Let your life challenge your sacred existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita

Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.
— Henri Poincare

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
— Ambrose Bierce

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?
— Helen Fielding

Recreational sex is thus supposed to function as the glue holding a human couple together while they cooperate in rearing their helpless baby.
— Jared Diamond

Consciousness is naturally shamanic.
— Joy Manne