Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.
Steven Biko

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.
Steven Biko

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
Bruce Springsteen

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
John Updike

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
Lord Acton

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
Zhuangzi

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
George Will

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
Dag Hammarskjold

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
William S. Burroughs

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
Thomas Huxley

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Louis Aragon

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
Paul Tournier

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.
Charlotte Bronte

Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.
Mary McLeod Bethune

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Gustave Flaubert

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
Gustave Flaubert