#profound

Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#african #american #american culture #arrived #became

A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed. ↗

— Barbara Smith

#anti-semitism #black #challenged #color #major

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#consequence #feeling #great #immortality #indifferent

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image. ↗

— Charles W. Chesnutt

#divine #heart #human #human heart #image

There are very few profound sayings in the world. ↗

— Jeff Rich

#profound #sayings #very #world

There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#thoughts #truth #beauty

My family was something precious, like jewelry, like a necklace you never take off. ↗

— Indira Ganesan

#beauty

You cannot hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second of immortality is over. All that's left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has. ↗

— Drew Magary

#immortality #life #profound #science-fiction #the-postmortal

You don't ask questions of an attic ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#profound #telling #dreams

I have to tell you, though, the sexism in late night talk is so profound. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#late #late night #night #profound #sexism