Wisdom Quotes

"You have to accept reality the way it is."

"I'm afraid I can't help you. It's all been decided."

"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."

"Goodness had nothing to do with it."

"I's been a-running away and you's been a-hunting me."

"White folks is in the right."

"The poor ain't got no luck."

"I reckoned he was dead sure."

"A man's got to have principles."

"There is no such thing as a secret. Everything is known"

"Only the hunter knows what his prey is thinking"

"Context is everything"

"I must be very careful about what I wish for"

"I am not complaining, nor am I protesting either. It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen."

"The mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived."

"All sickness is not unto death, neither is all blindness."

"You've got to learn to accept contradictions without allowing them to immobilize you."

"One must know the line between the real and the unreal."

"I had to learn that acceptance sometimes requires sacrifice."

"The race is not to the swift, but to the aware."

"Maybe God tried to tell you something too. But you was too busy listening."

"A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing."

"Providence don't give nobody all he can hold at one time."

"I had been looking for myself all along."

"I had to learn to use the darkness."

"There's no escape from responsibility."

"To accept the reality of the world is one thing."

"The burden of visibility is acceptance."

"I learned that betrayal comes from within."

"Pity is a virtue that leads men to madness."