W. Kamau Bell Quotes

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

I'm thankful I have my faith.

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard Wright, they all deal with elements of identity and trying to humanize our experience and our struggle in the world where people have been indifferent to who we are and what we are. It's basically just saying that our lives have meaning.

I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.

Let us say with one voice, the words of James Cleveland's great freedom hymn: "I don't feel no ways tired. I come too far from where I started from. Nobody told me that the road would be easy. I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me."

Lately I've been running on faith.

Prayer has comforted us in sorrow and will help strengthen us for the journey ahead.

God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.

To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.

It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands . . . They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same.

If you ever feel distressed during your day - call upon our Lady - just say this simple prayer: 'Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.' I must admit - this prayer has never failed me.

You are not hopeless. You are not helpless. Because there is a God who is alive and loves you!

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

We got to pray just to make it today.

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

No matter how dark and hopeless a situation might seem, never stop praying.

May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.

Being called Black in America is the struggle to keep us moving and breathing over bloody water. Being a Nig**r or [Ni**a] without the context of history is like drowning in bloody water, dragging down those yet knowing to swim.

Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.