Daniel Black > Quotes

“Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Sometimes, when people think they're putting obstacles in your path, they're actually laying your stepping-stones. You just gotta recognize them as one and the same.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“You can't lie a lifetime,son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you”
― Daniel Black , Perfect Peace

“Denial makes people repeat what they aren’t willing to acknowledge.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“God has a way of making sure you reach your destiny, regardless of what others do to you.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Don't give people god's power. Yeah, they have opinions and stuff, but they ain't got no power to change your world unless you give it to 'em. Keep the power you got. You'll need it. I promise.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“By figuring out how the experience can help you move forward. That's the point of why it happened to you in the first place. There's something you're suppose to get from the moment that'll get you closer to your mission if you can see it. Most people can't.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Evidence doesn't always convince people of the truth, [...] especially when the lie is what they prefer.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“You have to get clear about the kind of life you can live here. Life can be lived anywhere, but not every life can be lived everywhere.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“You must learn to uproot unwanted seeds without destroying the entire harvest. This is the son’s lesson. Nurture good sprouts, Isaac. Toss weeds aside and never think of them again. Just remember that sprouts and weeds are planted together, and weeds have a valuable function. They teach you what to avoid, what not to embrace. There is no good planting without them.”
― Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

“..we all do it. We talk about people we don't like until they become famous. Then we love 'em.”
― Daniel Black

“If you different, be different. People'll get used to it. They ain't got no other choice”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“But remember this: you're strong because of your people - not in spite of them.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Don't give people God's power. Yeah, they have opinions and styff, but they ain't got no power to change your world unless you give it to 'em. Keep ll the power you got. You'll need it. I promise.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Anybody can live good - soon as they decide the world can kiss they ass.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Perhaps future generations, the beautiful ones unborn, would wonder how we survived it all. What would we say? Or, more probably, what would history say for us? It would not speak truth. Not whole truth. It could not.”
― Daniel Black, The Coming

“Nothing has ever happened to you that’s greater than your power to heal it.”
― Daniel Black, Isaac's Song

“Carrying a child is a sacred thing. There is a bond established between mother and child in the womb that lasts forever. The truth of this bond can never be erased.”
― Daniel Black, They Tell Me of a Home

“He'd thought all weak men were sissies, and maybe they were, but Paul had shown him that not all sissies were weak.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Among us lived every spirit conceivable. Men who loved women, women who loved men. Women who loved women, men who loved men. These were not choices but life assignments. Everyone had one.”
― Daniel Black, The Coming

“Knowledge is a funny thing, Isaac. It informs by exposing. It shows you precisely how much you don’t know.”
― Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

“Just remember that, although we were flawed, we were marvelous, too.”
― Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

“The pain of what happened next lives in our collective memory. It mauls our souls each day. Yet it must be told. Silence guarantees no healing. It promises that the child's life would be forgotten and that its mission might, one day, be thought significant. Silence is the enemy of history, and history is all we have.”
― Daniel Black, The Coming

“If you get nothing else from this letter, understand that I never knew how to love. I dreamed of it, but I never experienced it. What I knew was pain. So that’s what I gave you.”
― Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

“Memories reveal who you used to be, what you once thought important, what regrets you cannot shake.”
― Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

“Truth was, they died as we died. It made sense. The universe demands life for life.”
― Daniel Black, The Coming

“I never did say I love you. That’s the reason I’d called. That’s what I’d promised your mother I’d say.”
― Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

“What he liked about the Jordan was hat no one could hinder its flow. It has a mind all its own. Other's opinions of its size or depth didn't matter. Only God possessed the power to subvert its course. Whether viewers loved it or not was inconsequential. It was a river, and it was created to flow, and that was exactly what it did. And that's all it did. That was its purpose, and no one could alter that identity regardless of what they thought.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“God has a way of making sure you
reach your destiny, regardless of what others do to you”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace