Phillis Wheatley Quotes

I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another.

After the birth of my first child, I believed in the things society said about how my body should look.

The idol of your self is the mother of all idols. To regard the self as easy to subdue is a mistake.

When someone says 'my people' with a specific stress on the blackness of those people, they are after kingdoms and permanently child-like slaves. 'The people' are never going to rise above the status of 'the people'. They are going to be told what is good for them by the 'mother' and the 'father'.

If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.

Got bitches on my jock out in East Detroit
'Cause they think that I'm a motherfucking Beastie Boy

Every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of shubh

Hindu extremists were unquestionably involved in the attacks against Muslims in Gujarat. Furthermore, the Modi government willfully neglected its duty to protect the rights and lives of its citizens and promoted further communal polarization in a state with already tense communal relations.

Can the river reject its fish?
Can the mother spurn her child?

The pride of any mother is to give birth to a responsible and successful child.

It was sort of frightening. He was so young. He didn't go out and play much. So if you want me to tell you the truth, I don't know where he got it. He just knew.

Good Heavens! She said ‘grass and goats milk? Never!’

I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of the South if it would cost my life; I was determined to see that things were changed.

People who truly understand God's purpose for their lives know that we are called to be intimately involved with one another.

Music has a natural place in our lives. Right from the shloka you recite in your morning puja and the milkman who comes whistling on his cycle, to the fakir singing as he begs for alms and your mother humming around the kitchen...Music fills our spaces naturally. It will always be dear to us.