Ilyasah Shabazz Quotes

My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an awareness of history; most especially, she was astute in Africa's significant contribution to world history. Sister Betty refused to live her life as a victim.

Ilyasah Shabazz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 22, 1962

Topics

LifeMotherLiveAdversityFaith

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Joel Osteen

FatherGodDecisionMeTryPreach

I knew that as a pharmacy student I would obtain military deferment. As I was of Jewish origin, this meant that I would not have to serve in a forced labor unit of the Hungarian army.

John Harsanyi

ArmyStudentLaborMilitaryJewish

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

Anita Roddick

GoodBusinessHistoryAlwaysThrough

I used to have a little saying I used when people said, 'What are your priorities?' I'd give them a bit of government alphabet soup. I'd say 'CTCPROW: Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, rest of the world.'

Michael Hayden

GovernmentPeopleWorldSayingRest

I'm an emotional fighter; that's no secret. But it can be detrimental.

Michael Bisping

FighterSecretEmotionalDetrimental

When I'm painting and in the zone, it's difficult for me to stop. It can take me half a day to get into that space, and once I do, I only talk to a certain few people who won't disrupt it. Home to sleep and back at it, nothing else outside of getting food. Everything else is an annoyance getting in my way.

Amy Sherald

HomeFoodDaySleepSpacePeople

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

John Polkinghorne

New ThingsChanceNewWayMeanCome

I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.

Steven Spielberg

SurviveAlwaysBeenInterestedHow

During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned.

Martin Ryle

ExperienceWarPeopleEngineering

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.

Michael Moore

WinRevolutionGrowEnemyNumbers

Being here, it is just impossible to imagine what that was like, when the tsunami hit.

Connie Sellecca

ImpossibleImagineBeingHereJust

The same myths are told in every culture, and they might swap out details, but it's still the same story. It's the same story, but with a different face.

Brie Larson

CultureStoryFaceDetailsSameOut

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