#cher

Love is a word, another kind of open. As the diamond comes into a knot of flame I am Black because I come from the earth's inside take my word for jewel in the open light. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black-poet #essayist #feminist #ny-laureate #teacher

I wish I could find MY books listed on GOODREADS - DODGING JOE, THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T EXPLAIN, THE BITTER GRAPES - ll available through Amazon and Createspace - ↗

— Saaskia Aark-Bennett

#general-giction #love #murder #treachery #love

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#crazy #knowledge #learn #takes #taught

We need teachers. We need to be teachers. Knowing when for each, is wisdom ↗

— Rick Beneteau

#wisdom-inspirational #wisdom-quote #wisdom-quotes #inspirational

He picked up the wrench and broke the guy’s wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the same to the guy who had held the hammer, three, four. The two men were somebody’s weapons, consciously deployed, and no soldier left an enemy’s abandoned ordnance on the field in working order. The doctor’s wife was watching from the cabin door, all kinds of terror in her face. "What?" Reacher asked her. ↗

— Lee Child

#men

I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#catcher-in-the-rye #inspirational #inspirational

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#teachers #inspirational

Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#inspirational #life #strength #inspirational

Per alcuni il caos è bellezza ↗

— Tera Lynn Childs

#forgiveness

The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids. ↗

— Donna Quesada

#inspiration #teachers #teaching #wisdom-quote #zen