C. L. R. James Quotes

I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it; there's no question in my mind it's as good as any movie that came out in 2007.

Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him.

God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.

It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

Put yourself in God’s hands and you can’t go wrong.

But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That’s what counts.

Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.

The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

Be kind to the living.

The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

There is no debate among any statured scientists of what is happening. The only debate is the rate at which it is happening.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.

I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a father's joy.

We'd sit outside and watch the stars at night She'd tell me to make a wish I'd wish we both could fly.

These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.

I was lucky to have a great dad.

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

There is a spiritual realm that is available to all who find its many entrances.

There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.

I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God.

I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.

I'm not really excited about the idea of committing to anything permanently.

I was a regular dork. I was a kid who was scrawny and all that, and probably kind of dumb or something. I wasn't unordinary; I wasn't extraordinary.

My dad and I get into it all the time. He loves to discuss politics much more than I do and we have pretty heated conversations.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.

I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it. ... I [want] to have those new conversations, musically and otherwise.

I really know so little about recording, and I'm learning as I go.

Horrible dates are when you're with people who are immature and can't really be comfortable in their own skin.

I think perfect dates involve walking a lot, and not a bunch of driving around in cars. Ideally, you can walk together and go to a restaurant.

I've never gone through an audition process or anything. In most of my decisions like that, I just kind of feel it out: You know, do I feel comfortable with this person?

The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

If the inner life of our fashionable women were known, how few would deserve the title of lady!

Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

In life, there are no perfect affections.

The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

When people come to our show [Aladdin], I want them to forget about that for a little while and enjoy the moment. That's what I want to give them. I loved performing since I was a little kid.

I love performing. There is an ego in me that loves to be in front of people.

There are people out there who pay their hard earned money to see a good show and people who work 9 to 5 and they saved their money and they want to see the best show possible.

Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past.

Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years.

Tis human actions paint the chart of time.

Prayer moves the arm Which moves the world, And brings salvation down.

There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in the ground.