Luisah Teish quotes

Luisah Teish quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“We are the ancestors of the future and what we do now will have an impact.”
-- Luisah Teish

#Impact Quotes #Ancestor Quotes
“I maintain that the biggest challenge in the new millennium could be a change of habit. We could change from a dominating commodity culture into one of true exchange in which we learn from each other in humility and respect. I do think it's possible. But it's up to us.”
-- Luisah Teish

#Respect Quotes #Humility Quotes #Thinking Quotes
“Sometimes the ancestors deem certain information so important that they send it to the subconscious mind without being consciously asked.”
-- Luisah Teish

Source : Luisah Teish (1985). “Jambalaya”, Harpercollins

#Mind Quotes #Important Quotes #Information Quotes

“I would need to see changes in the Iraq governance. Otherwise I don't think strikes are going to have any impact and could be very well counterproductive.”
“I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.”

Source : "An Interesting Walk Through Counterculture" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.
“Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.”

Source : "Bringing Sexy Back". Interview with Scott Frampton, www.marieclaire.com. January 6, 2008.
“We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.”
“Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.”
“Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.”
“Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.”
“But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”
“Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.”

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