“Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.” PeopleCharacterDreamAliveDiseaseNegativeAddTongueReputationAspirationAllowingUnhealthyNegative PeopleDebrisDiscreet Author:Michael Bassey
“I am essence of Rose Solitude my cheeks are laced with cognac my hips sealed with five satin nails I carry dreams and romance of new fools and old flames between the musk of fat and the side pocket of my mink tongue.” DreamRomanceSidesFiveFoolSolitudeEssenceRoseTongueFatsHipsFlamesPocketsCheeksNailsSatinMuskMinkCognac Book:Jazz fan looks back Source: Jazz fan looks back
“People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue.” PeopleKnowsWorldHeartKindDreamNightSleepSpecialTongueEaseEcstasyHoneyPlacid Book:Out of Africa Source: Out of Africa
“I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from this earth and all that I know, I know in this earth, the body of the bird, this pen, this paper, these hands, this tongue speaking, all that I know speaks to me through this earth.” KnowsMadeDreamBodyHandsEarthMotherSpeakPaperBirdTonguePens Book:Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her Source: Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her
“Tis not for golden eloquence I pray, A godlike tongue to move a stony heart-- Methinks it were full well to be apart In solitary uplands far away, Betwixt the blossoms of a rosy spray, Dreaming upon the wonderful sweet face Of Nature, in a wild and pathless place.” WellsHeartDreamFacesMovingWonderfulSweetPrayingSolitudeTongueGoldenFar AwaySolitaryI PrayEloquenceSprayGodlikeRosySweet Face Author:Frederick Tennyson
“I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken it in. It's like speaking in tongues. It may sound like gibberish to somebody, but you know it's a tongue of some kind. Black people have this. We have the ability as a race to speak in tongues, to dream in tongues, to love in tongues.” PeopleKnowsWritingTryingKindMayUseDreamSpeakLanguageSoundBlackAbilityRaceTakenPiecesTenTraditionTwentiesTongueBlack PeopleMultiplicitySpeaking In Tongues Author:Alexis De Veaux